I also think that converting to h265 is much better. Then the client can decide if it wants to play HDR or do the tonemapping. Already moved my vote to that feature request:
Is the ability to transcode to HEVC/x265 something that’s on the roadmap?
Most, possibly all, of the people I share my library with use playback devices which support HEVC playback. I’ve got a very beefy Xeon processor with more cores than I have fingers in my server that is perfectly capable of transcoding a couple streams to HEVC. It would be nice if there was an advanced option, or maybe a feature for PlexPass subscribers, to enable transcoding to HEVC for devices that support it to increase…
Furthermore I think that it’s also important to be able to sync h265 content as most devices today are able to decode that. You can add your vote here:
Given HEVC/x265 is now quite common as a supported playback format, wouldn’t it make sense to either allow PMS Sync to allow direct downloads where we select maximum quality, rather than force transcode to x264.
Or to allow for users to select a direct download and take the risk their playback device can’t support.
In fact it would be great in PMS Sync to clear up the language for quality to “no transcode”, as currently it isn’t clear what happens when you select “maximum”.
