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All, I’ve cut a couple file samples which reportedly cause artifacts. 2160p movie (dark scene with light reflecting) 1080p movie (burning in PGS subtitles) I would greatly appreciate everyone with artifact problems to try these two files. Compare them to your files. When you find artifacting…

Seems like only 2 issues to go until it’s ready to be released in a beta channel, correct?

Lots of work behind the scenes right now. Give us a bit please. FYI: When in beta channel, the issues will blossom :rofl:

Any reason Plex won’t pay for the licenses to Decode and Encode Dolby Vision?

I don’t have all of the details here, but these things usually boil down to cost and licensing concerns (esp if we had to deploy the licenses on every PMS instance which I don’t know if we would have to do or not, but license management overhead for something like this would be pretty tough to do). …

Thanks, I’d love for plex to offer this if it was on a per user basis… I and many user would pay for this feature even if just for that user/server Sorry to off topic but do you require a license for playback for your playback backend on the client or does that then tie down to the device itself?

[image] JonzaUK: Thanks, I’d love for plex to offer this if it was on a per user basis… I and many user would pay for this feature even if just for that user/server There was a response from a Plex employee on this topic a while ago but I can’t find the thread. Essentially the licence fee re…

@McWanke - Here’s a thought… If the concerns are the cost of the licence, then why not simply offer this as a paid for bolt on. That way Plex can either decide to get the bolt on revenue from the customer to cover the cost of the licence, or even add a few bucks on top to make a little profit at t…

[image] kesawi: many thousands of dollars per Plex server expensive @kesawi - Surely that cannot be right?? Many thousands per server? To me that sounds unsustainable… It’s highly unlikely that Dolby will want to charge many thousands per TV that supports DV, or per BluRay player, or per R…

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kesawi August 8, 2025, 11:55pm 48

Is the transcoder upgrade preview going to be updated to address the potential security issue so that we can continue to test it without a potential risk?

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