I am creating this thread because the old one ( Transcode to HEVC/x265 ) was locked for going off topic, but this is still a valid feature request that has not been addressed. (Would also be fair if the existing 211 votes counted) My justification for revisiting this issue: Bandwidth and Quality: …

I removed my vote from there and added it here. This needs to happen in some form. With remote sharing affected by data caps and bandwidth limits, this has a clear impact on user experience.

I definitely agree with this. Many popular SoC’s these days (even embedded TV SoC’s) all support HEVC decoding now. You can certainly get much more bang (in terms of psychovisual quality or perceived quality) for your bandwidth buck by using HEVC/h.265/x.265 over AVC/h.264/x.264 wherever possible.

ChuckPa is clearly missing a lot of knowledge on the encoding/decoding end and the current situation on the hardware market. HEVC was released in 2013, this has now become the standard encoding platform since the release of UHD as it reduces 50% storage so it also reduces bitrate by 50%, while main…

Correction, YouTube and Netflix have also implemented HEVC support.

YouTube and Netflix are both actually starting to transition to AV1, and I’m not sure they ever fully completed their HEVC transition (it looks like a mix of codecs for them right now). AV1 is a royalty-free codec unlike HEVC. Speaking as a person who has advocated for HEVC support in the past, at …

the only problem with AV1 support, is HW to support it. with no AV1 HW encoding, to me there isn’t any point. edit: not to mention AV1 decoding support on sufficient number of devices to make it worth while edit2: and even before the HW support, there would need to be FFMPEG support for AV1. (edi…

[image] TeknoJunky: the only problem with AV1 support, is HW to support it. 100% agreed, but it seems to take a while to nail down stable hardware encoding. Seems like starting to code/test acceleration with early hardware would give them time to have it ready when it’s more prevalent (It loo…

Thanks for the feedback and insight @Cafe_Diem . I have also read about the licensing and for commercial seem to need to contact MulticoreWare. From what I know Intel started HEVC Encoding support when they released Skylake in 2015, so it should still be supported. My 2017 Intel CPU can transcode to…

[image] Paulus88: From what I know Intel started HEVC Encoding support when they released Skylake in 2015, so it should still be supported. My 2017 Intel CPU can transcode to HEVC no problem. Believe it or not, it was one generation later! Skylake has “hybrid support” for HEVC, which means it…

Understandable, but they did not skip H.264 when the DivX/XviD era made H.264 “transitional” like H.265 is to AV1. I think if the codec has existed more than 5 years we don’t get to call it “transitional” without calling H.264 “transitional” as well. I’d hate for Plex Team to have another excuse to…

Transcode to HEVC with HW Support (Intel/NVidia)

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DaveBinM February 17, 2021, 11:12pm 15

Closing in favour of Transcode to HEVC/x265

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Transcode to HEVC with HW Support (Intel/NVidia)

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