Announcing the HEVC (H.265) hardware encoding forum preview! This is a feature that has received a lot of votes over the years and we couldn’t be more excited to start getting some feedback leading up to the general release. If you are wondering what value this provides, HEVC encoding offers a bette…

It doesn’t appear to have been merged into the Plex Pass version yet, you will need to wait until that happens before you switch if you wish to continue to have the HEVC support.

[image] Angelgtc87: I have latest download available on this page which is 9239, I have a notification that says " Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9276 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel." HEVC encoding is only in the Forum Preview builds. It will be mentioned in the rel…

Any updates to share? Its been pretty quite here lately.

I think we are just waiting for a merge to the plex pass version, Chris said a few posts up that the work on the preview was done and that there wouldn’t be any more updates.

I hope soon… For me this is such a major feature, I’m going to stick with this version until it gets released!

The clients, from my experience, don’t like HEVC. It must be a lot of number crunching for the decoding hardware.

If it’s not supported by the hardware then it will transcode to h264 instead.

Which is probably where a lot of the work in the Plex clients is required. Coding in sufficient constraints to each client app so that the app recognises the hardware and what its limitations are. When you think about the number of different hardware variations amongst some environments this could b…

Right. “Supported” doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s good at it. Could be on the encoding end as well. Each client I tested had a different issue. Bottom line is the entire user experience is not as smooth as H.264. This integration has a ways to go.

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chris_decker08 December 11, 2024, 9:55pm 660

Just to clarify, all the code for this is in 1.41.3 so you wont see it in release notes. There is a switch on our end which will enable the functionslity and that will be flipped on our end when all clients are ready and product/marketing give the green light Unfortunetly i have no say over when that will be.

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