Hi, what is wrong with Plex Sync and HEVC X265 videos? Whenever I want to sync a video to watch it offline, even when I select “Original” quality, it transcodes the video anyway into X264. Apart from taking way longer to sync, a degradation of quality and as bonus a way bigger file on my mobile devi…

Plex Sync Bug: Videos always transcode, even with original quality option. Will this ever be fixed?

enchained June 4, 2019, 4:56pm 5

You can probably fix it for yourself for now: Allow sync without transcoding

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