+1 from me as well. This would be a huge benefit to all involved.
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Iām honestly surpised they havenāt been forced to add codec support for AV1 or HVEC by the content partners they added to Plex. They very very very clearly do not add support or features for paid/paying customers, so the corporate deals are our only hope.
Literally just waiting for Emby or Jellyfin to have samsung TV apps and Iām out.
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+1 for AV1 support. The rest of the streaming world is going for it. Saves a ton of time and quality.
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+1 for this
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How is this not implemented yet? Come onā¦ lol
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What you say is true. Using YouTube Video and Audio Downloader with Firefox. The smallest video in 1920x1080 is
399 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 2084k , av01.0.08M.08, 25fps, video only, 41.70MiB
Which is not supported, so would like Plex to support it, otherwise I am stuck with
248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2677k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 60.78MiB
Which is 45% larger file. 
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2020 - Kodi 19 supports AV1 decoding via sw
2022 - Kodi 20 supports AV1 decoding via hw
2023 - Plex wonāt support AV1 because of yes
idk for me this is a clear win for competitors 
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Letās look at the long list of companies throwing their weight behind AV1, starting with content providers. Thereās Google (YouTube), Amazon (Prime, Twitch), Netflix, and Meta (Facebook). Add to that Microsoft, Tencent, and Vimeo among others and youāve got the support of the streaming industry. Itās in their financial interest to save bandwidth wherever possible.
The list of hardware supporters is equally impressive. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Arm Cisco, Broadcom, Mediatek, and many others combine to make up a list that has enough influence to ensure the success of AV1, though whether they all push for it equally is an open question. Note that there is one major exclusion from that list. Qualcomm. However, its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 due in 2023 will reportedly include AV1 decoding support.
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Plex, please get on board with this codec. Videos in the codec look pretty amazing for the size.
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+1 - I also support AV1 decoding/encoding. I think nows a good time with quiet afew streaming devices picking up native support for it.
For non-direct play there should be a check to see if the client supports av1 for playback, otherwise use 264. This will allow for better quality streams at the same or less bandwidth usage.
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If transcoding is not to be supported with AV1 (reading an AV1 file and decoding to whatever else) - the official Plex clients (on platforms where libmpv is used) needs direct play support.
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Finally encoding some AV1, thanks to the speedy SVT-AV1. Sent some test files to Plex, andā¦ āCannot convert this item. Implementation for video decoder āav1ā not found.ā 
Quite surprised Plex does not support AV1 yet. Seems like it might finally happen soon. Added my vote.
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Adding my voice to the cacophony of people cheering for AV1 support.
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Iāll throw my hat as wellā¦ really should be supported.
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So how about that Music Video support?
j/k. +1 AV1 support.
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+1 for AV1 support please
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Iām going to throw in my ā+1ā for AV1 support, too, at least on the backend/decode side of things.
Even if my player canāt play AV1 (many can) and so DirectPlay is out of the question, AV1 decode is usually easy enough that it can be transcoded to H.264 in real time for distribution to the client. The quality improvements at various bitrates that AV1 gives wouldnāt be improved by this, by the storage needed by the media library can be vastly reduced. Now that we have hardware AV1 encoders available, re-ripping my DVDs and Blu-Rays to AV1 would deliver savings on storage for my library. Even if it has to transcode out to my TV or the web player or the Android app, supporting AV1 for decode would allow for a fairly significant storage savings.
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Also throwing in my +1 would love the storage savings
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Iām giving my +1 to this feature. Although most of content I store is H.264/H.265, being able to use the NVENC hardware encoder for AV1 to stream contents to remote locations would be awesome! The bandwidth savings are more than noticeable. Thank you Plex team!
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+1 for AV1 support please~
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