I cant believe we are still waiting for this to be a thing, they give us awful Atari games but no H265/X265 Encoding support??
Honestly, even my video surveillance cameras encode in H265, saves me a huge amount of storage space.
Everything is using HEVC now, and most recent products support encode/decode now, most recent Intel CPU’s with QSV fully support H256 via hardware acceleration and I believe the GTX 1050 and up all support it as well.
It would make my 2mb 720p streams over the web look like 4mb 720p, and we could easily do 3 to 4mb 1080p streams, instead of the ridiculous 8mb 1080p streams we are limited to at the moment.
I’m all for implementing new ideas in Plex, but this is something people have been asking for for over 2 years now.
I can encode multiple H265 1080p streams with a Gen 9 Intel CPU at more than 30fps each, and I can easily do 4 720p streams, CPU doesn’t even break a sweat, and my aging GTX 1080ti can transcode a high bit rate 1080p H264 to a heavily compressed 1080p H265 in more than 200fps and the quality is almost as good as the original, and if you use an RTX card, the quality is even better.
Seriously, we don’t really need need Space Invaders or Centipede, we need H265 Encoding support, hell I don’t care if you say it will only work on “X” GPU or “Z” CPU, I will go and buy what ever I need to make it work.
