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…

The new HEVC updates are now merged into the current PMS build so it’s very likely that update broke it. Chris is out until January now so it’s probably best to back down a version or two if HW subtitles are required. EDIT: Chatted with Chris. He’s now aware of this and I’ve submitted the iss…

I’ve been testing this and its awesome! I’m very Happy to see development in this area. Next step would be to add more AV1 support. Thanks!

A380 has been working great for me as well. Zero issues with it on Ubuntu 24.04. Threw it in my system and it just worked. It’s an absolute beast for HEVC encoding.

Do I understand correctly that testing this forum preview is concluded and we’re just waiting on activation of HEVC transcoding (which is already) in the current public release?

[image] repentance: Do I understand correctly that testing this forum preview is concluded [image] HEVC Encoding Forum Preview Plex Media Server I have updated the download links to fix hw transcode issues with Intel PNV, WHL, CML, and RPLU devices. Note: This will…

Plex Media Server Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9314 is now available to everyone. Does this imply that HEVC encoding is available to “everyone”, as in Plex Pass members, using the beta release or are we still waiting on it to be enabled? I appologize but that last message left me a little confus…

It is not yet available to public users or beta users unless you are running the preview version from this thread. The code is implemented in the current beta but switched “off” until Plex marketing gives the all clear and all the device clients are updated with software and logic to take advantage…

Thanks for your fast reply. That was my understanding before reading the message I referenced. I’ve been running this preview build since it’s been available and have been really happy with it. Almost all my content is encoded in AV1, and many of my client devices don’t support it yet, so the HEVC …

Hopefully they launch it with clear documentation for which CPU’s, and players will work with it. I’m still iffy if my i7-7700 can do everything more recent chips can. I want to decide what platform my next plex server should be made from.

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