I can only tell you that web browsers don’t play HEVC. The transcoding is therefore unavoidable.
Fetch yourself a Linux build of PMP, if you are after direct play.
Hello Plex users!
Because there is no official packages of Plex Media Player for Linux desktop I have decided to create one.
Instead of building multiple packages for all different packaging systems (DEB, RPM, Snap, Flatpack) and even different distribution releases (separate DEB for Ubuntu Trusty, separate DEB for Ubuntu Xenial,…) I wanted to make things as simple as possible for us Linux users. So I’ve used an AppImage format for this.
AppImage is universal package format that runs on any m…