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…

Thank you for summerizing it better than I did. Yeah I just felt it would been nice to be able to test it earlier by having that toggle on. But if there are underlying reason this feature can’t be done through that or if I misunderstood what that toggle is supposed to be, that’s fine too.

@Protocol_7 We have actually found a bug in the web client which limits HEVC transcodes to 8 bits, which triggers tone mapping to down convert from 10 bit HDR. All other clients appear to be functioning correctly.

@chris_decker08 Gotcha! Thank you—that helps clear my confusion!

hi chris sorry for going a little of topic but i have an issue with the transcoder in the current live and beta releases and have had no help or feedback in a month. i cant optimise my media because all that is created is a file with audio only, no video or subs. transcoding on the fly works fine ju…

Please point me to your forum post

when hevc is released will it be same bitrate better quality or same quality lower bitrate

same quality lower bitrate, however the clients have not been updated to display the lower bitrate and will essentially be lying to you about the bitrate

cool thnx thats good, going to run out of space using x264 so that will be a big help

So close from the new feature … :slight_smile: Can’t wait for tomorrow

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