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…

I am also onboard for the desire of H.265 as it’s much better at transcoding per the bitrate. If there are compatibility issues on the client side, having a fallback option of H.264 would be an excellent way to mitigate that possibly?

Still no support for this, it’s just incredibly disappointing. Jellyfin added this in 2019 (experimental), and 2020 more officially. It’s been over 2 years, and Plex still doesn’t have this very basic functionality. Please fix this, at this point it’s not a feature request, it’s a core support issu…

No 2022 update from the Plex team about this subject ?

No proper ipv6, hevc encoding and av1…

With more recent dedicated HEVC transcoding on Apple Silicon providing HEVC x265 encodes that are simultaneously faster, higher quality and with much smaller files sizes than the h.264 comparator, I cannot fathom why Plex does not include it at all - it should be the default. Added my vote.

this request is kinda stupid if you want to all video to be transcode to hevc/x265. this is like putting your server to encoding videos. lol. i dont know the purpose why would you want this? dont tell me less file size? gtfoh. plex is not handbrake that would do all the encoding for you for your pl…

@esmarq - The clue is in the name… HEVC ( High Efficiency Video Coding) More and more people are using HEVC nowadays, and what is actually stupid, is Plex transcoding an HEVC video to x264 which is obviously less efficient. x265 is “generally speaking” twice as efficient as x264, which also equate…

[image] esmarq: i dont know the purpose why would you want this? You’re right, it doesn’t make sense to recompress and save already-compressed files. Sometimes on-the-fly transcoding is useful, and HEVC/H.265 can produce streams that require perhaps 1/3 less bandwidth, or have somewhat highe…

i would not deny your claim, but its the plex server is doing all the work when youre gonna default the transcode to hevc/x265 when the source of video being transcoded is in different format (x264/h264 to x265/hevc) remember plex client are not transcoding (even they support hevc). this just gonna…

@esmarq I don’t think you need to worry - Anything that’s Direct Play or Stream would continue to be Direct AVC → HEVC doesn’t look worse than AVC → AVC If transcoding to HEVC was implemented, it might not be the default It’s unlikely to be implemented anyway

Transcode to HEVC/x265

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Transcode to HEVC/x265

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