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…

We’re nearing the end of the year, so again I need to bump this to try and get attention on this issue. It’s only getting worse as quality expectations (as well as HDR) increase with time. If this is a royalty/cost issue, is Plex investigating transcoding into AV1? So the client receives AV1.

Intel cpus with integrated graphics have supported HEVC 10bit HEVC encoding in hardware for 3-4 years now, since kaby lake and maybe even Skylake (partially I think). This needs to happen I might be bringing up a point already addressed but how sure are you of that? In 2019 I thought no Intel IGP…

If this is a royalty/cost issue, is Plex investigating transcoding into AV1? So the client receives AV1 AV1 isn’t well supported by most manufacturers and will more than likely have a successor before the likes of phone and TV manufacturers consider it, H.266 is very likely to be standardised bef…

Man, you quoted my post from 2019 about Kaby Lake CPUs lmao, I’m not sure of anything anymore. Google, or even Bing for that matter, could have told you the answer: [image] Intel Launches 7th Generation Kaby Lake: 15W/28W with Iris, 35-91W Desktop...

Any news about this ? I have a 4K x265 encoded video, when streaming it to to full hd TV it uses x264 which is less efficient.

Will Plex be implementing support for transcoding using hevc?

Ive heard a few theories why it wont be implemented right now. Some say Plex may have to pay some hefty licence fees to use HEVC/x265 in the server to transcode in real time. Some say that the amount of power needed to transcode to HEVC/x265 in real time at reasonable quality, Compared to x264 just …

Unfortunately this will not happen. I think AV1 transcoding has hope though. I started a request thread for it here .

Honestly, it’s unlikely to happen. AV1 transcoding is noticeably more efficient than HEVC and has already been implemented by many video delivery sites (YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch etc). On the other hand, HEVC NVEnc very performant and could be a feasible choice for low-quality trans…

Seems like this will be a thing soon…

Transcode to HEVC/x265

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tom80H January 24, 2025, 2:40am 322

This feature has now been promoted from “forum preview” to an “experimental feature” in the public releases.

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[Implemented] H.265 - High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Plex Support! Feature Suggestions	200	390	August 9, 2017
Transcode to HEVC with HW Support (Intel/NVidia) Feature Suggestions	13	1240	February 17, 2021
Struggling with 4K HEVC HW Transcoding with GPU Plex Media Server server-windows	105	20861	December 11, 2019
X265 Plex Server vs x265 Plex Client General Discussions	29	7267	February 14, 2019
Direct playing HEVC encoded files General Discussions	38	20296	November 3, 2019

Transcode to HEVC/x265

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