this is unbelievable! @Plexdevs: What are you doing? Instead of doing useful features, you introduce features that nobody wants, while this is such a basic thing, this bug has been open forever, nobody seems to care.
So a while ago, I quit my plex membership, because you don’t serve me anymore with your work, I know that many think the same and it is really sad.
I voted with my wallet, don’t you care to lose your founding members? The people that were there from the start but now are turning away because you don’t keep the most basic promises of what a media player needs to be to handle. VLC can do it, has been able to do it for a long time.
Anyway, I hope this does something, everybody that thinks the same, please give a +1
The current beta of PMS (version 1.30.1) supports decoding AV1 videos using CPU or with hw-acceleration (GPU).
IIRC Plex have recently also added direct playback support for their desktop client (Plex for Mac/Linux/Windows version 1.59.1; I haven’t checked support for other clients).
Ok, that is great to hear that there is movement in that respect. Is there support for the web client? Why did they chose to do a client when a web browser was much easier to support and worked on any OS?
Looks like the only hard-blocked browsers are from Apple (which is interesting since they are part of AOM, and AV1 type has been exposed in their media framework API/dev docs for a while now although we have no way to see how well-implemented it is) and browsers that have so little market share as to be negligible in terms of product feature planning for Plex.
The red ones with green flags indicate a way to easily enable AV1 codec support. For Edge it’s the AV1 Media Extension found in the MS app store, and for Firefox for Android it’s a setting that is disabled by default and just needs to be flipped on, and will probably be flipped on by default in an upcoming release.
Is it Plex’s policy to wait for Apple to support something in Safari before enabling it in Plex Web at all? I could maybe understand that. Definitely don’t think they care about KaiOS Browser or Opera Mini with their 0.1% market shares (probably less), or the loooong-deprecated Internet Explorer (currently only still used in tightly-controlled and secure corporate or government environments that need it for backwards compatibility with ancient browser-based software that can’t or won’t be updated for a long time).
