Im really suprised that i am also having this issue… Main question is Plex even going to add this codec to Plex or should we just bite the bullet and get rid of AV1 in our media collections now rather than wait and wait…
is there a way to search within file explorer to find theses AV1 Files???
Please help
The easiest way I found to spot these AV-1 files is to look at the library view in Plex itself. The AV1 files won’t generate a thumbnail. They’ll just be a blank gray box.
+1 AV1 support
Is it worth me putting +1 AV1 support? It’s been over a year since this post started.
+1 AV1 support
+1 for AV1 support
+1 for AV1
In the before times, back when Plex was agile and super awesome, when it was a Mac version of XBMC, features would come to XBMC, and then a bit later those features would fall into Plex.
Now it looks like Kodi has AV1 support, so maybe when Plex “evaluates” this version of Kodi, that AV1 will suddenly be supported in Plex.
As far as I can see, AV1 has been supported by Kodi for quite some time.
Kodi 19.0 was released at 19 Feb 
But: +1 for AV1
+1 for AV1 support!
I was trying to watch a YouTube rip and Plex just refused to play it. I know Plex uses ffmpeg on the backend so I checked with the ffmpeg forums and found that it’s supported AV1 for a while and has a pretty good encoding guide.
To get my media into a Plex-compatible format, I did a quick ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 30 -b:v 0 output.mp4 (subbing input and output with the video title).
I wish I could’ve just done direct play! The player I was watching on supports it. I’ve watched other AV1 coded videos on it (confirmed by “stats for nerds”).
That may have been implemented in the YouTube app itself, rather than in the player device hardware or OS.
Edit: or maybe not. Comments below indicate that there’s at least one modern Roku that supports AV1.
Is there some way to make PMS not freak out when it encounters AV1.
It has a fit, even when it’s just auto scanning the library on a daily basis.
+1 for me as well, at least let the Android TV player use hardware decoding if it’s available. Emby’s video player uses the hardware decode abilities of the MeCool KM6 (uses Amlogic S905X4 chipset with h/w AV1 decoding) and so should Plex. Just pass the file to the endpoint and let the endpoint decode the stream natively.
I know have a Roku which supports AV1 playback (in addition to every single web browser that I run). I also have a good deal of content encoded in AV1 using ffmpeg and rav1e. It isn’t real-time encoding, but correctly set parameters can get you do about 0.8x real-time with pretty good quality. I can convert recorded OTA shows into at that rate into a higher quality than x264 with a file 1/3 of the size of the x264 file.
In any case, plex support for direct playback would be greatly appreciated, even if trans-coding to AV1 isn’t in the cards.
Exactly this. Heck, don’t even allow transcoding because not maybe processors can do that for AV1, just allow direct playback
+AV1 Support requested.
+1
Using the most recent versions of libdav1d most Android TV devices are capable of playing 1080p AV1 without any problems using software decoding.
You could always add AV1 direct play as an experimental feature behind an option that is off by default, so noone cries when it doesn’t work.
I would rather start encoding anything non-HDR in av1 using svt-av1 (better quality at higher speed than x265@slow preset)!
I’ve been patiently waiting for this for probably close to 2 years now, and I’m about to start looking for a replacement for Plex.
+1 for av1 support, and honestly, what is the matter with Plex for not having this yet?
Exactly “mis-Hap”. Equally frustrating that there has been no comment from Plex!
I have been using Kodi more and more and will likely uninstall Plex.
Is there any reason I shouldn’t? (mostly rhetorical)
+1 on AV1 support
