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 tr…

Here’s what I must look at from my perspective. Which CPUs (QSV) or GPUs (working on) support HEVC encoding in libva? How many need/want that capability? (This is the business folks decision) How much will it cost to implement (another business decision) With the list of what can handle it, I…

The time has come for H.265 encoding using HW Transcoding. There is little performance difference because it’s done in HW and not software. Especially true for consumer Nvidia card owners. If not using HW then this can easily overwhelm a CPU for sure. Therefore it should be an option. Bitrate for…

I agree. It is long past time to have a client option to request, and server options to prefer and force HEVC transcoding.

I agree. The time for HEVC transcoding support is long overdue. My entire library is encoded in h.265. All my devices I use for playback support HEVC hardware decoding, including my mobile phones. My Plex server is more than capable of transcoding to HEVC in real-time at decent quality. As 4K conten…

Well if HEVC on Plex ends up requiring hardware transcoding then it remains unavailable to the large number of us who don’t use Windows.

Or they could support it on different platforms. :slight_smile:

Would like more codec options for transcoding too :slight_smile:

Have to agree here. H265 transcoding is here today and applications that don’t use it will be left behind.

Tell that to all the people that still use AVI’s and all the apps that play AVI’s. Welcome to the forum!!

I would really love to see this functionality. The most quality my family members get from their connection is 4 Mbps 720p. If it was transcoded to H265 they would probably be able to get a good 1080p out of that same 4Mbps connection.

Transcode to HEVC/x265

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cayars January 18, 2019, 10:39pm 10

Or they could support it on different platforms.

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Transcode to HEVC/x265

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