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Hi, thanks for the builds! I’m running the Windows x64 Build, trying to improve the handling of Live TV from my DVB-T2 tuner. My hardware is pretty low power, but capable of playing HEVC with hardware decoding. When I start a TV channel, Plex always wants to transcode. On the official build this w…

The new IOS/Android clients don’t direct play MPEG2. Make sure to turn off HEVC encoding for non-HEVC Sources in the server transcoder settings. [image] Probably also want to ensure it is disabled for recordings. [image]

It shouldn’t be necessary to Modify HEVC transcoding on the server side unless you are running an early version of the New Experience clients. 2025.17 and later should force an h264 transcode for LiveTV regardless of this setting.

From the OP: [image] Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview How it Works: While this build does not have any new features No new features, but paving the road for more (e.g. hw transcoding for more architectures…)

since this is testing stage its technically usefull to switch it to 7.x series if its already made for easy upgrade in future (if i understand that correctly in a developer comment). otherwise it needs to be tested again in future and it will a never ending story and this will finally bring av1 tran…

@brainslayer This is a Forum Preview (final test) of the FFMPEG 4.1 → FFMPEG 6.1 upgrade prior to putting it into production use. As previously stated, all the built-in Dolby features would need be ripped out from 7.x due to our current licensing. What users might do is significantly differen…

yes and the trick here is to make it full opensource by gpl license requirements. provide the source for self compiling. like ffmpeg is doing it. in that way you cannot get into legal troubles. in fact you are just providing a patch on top of ffmpeg to make the plex transcoder out of it. thats it. w…

[image] brainslayer: yes and the trick here is to make it full opensource by gpl license requirements Please check <PMS install dir>/resources/License file

you dont need to show me the buch of licenses which are included in plex. i gave you a advise. so this was not a proper answer. you do provide the sourcecode of the ffmpeg sourcecode as required by the gpl, but you do not provide the modifications. this is a violation of the license. but i’m not her…

[image] brainslayer: you dont need to show me the buch of licenses which are included in plex. If you read the file, you will see it contains a link to our source code for download!

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From the OP:

No new features, but paving the road for more (e.g. hw transcoding for more architectures…)

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