As i recently got myself a intel arc that can at least with current plex decode for av1, when can we expect plex to support encoding? As my family all uses google tv 1080p, which supports av1 decode, as well as my phone on the go, and as my carrier sub, and family’s internet does not have more than 10Mbit, but i got symmetrical gig at home, i want to av1 encode for them so they can get 30-50% better visual quality over the same limited download speed they have.
There’s a feature suggestion for it. Though it doesn’t seem to be very popular:
Plex doesn’t generally provide ETAs for new features (or discuss whether or not they’re even considering them until they do) but maybe they’ll buck the trend here.
And for what it’s worth, don’t pay any attention to the statement in that feature suggestion that Plex will never support transcoding HEVC; that has already been implemented.
*cough 
Working on it. Probably won’t be in initial the FFMPEG 6.1 upgrade release.
There’s other prerequisite work which needs to be completed first.
( catching up with the backlog )
It is on the radar. ( I have a RTX 2000 ada gen all ready for it )
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Am I correct to assume that AV1 will require a hardware encoder? Or is the plan to allow for software encoding to AV1 as well? I don’t know if CPU’s can even do that on the fly with AV1 now, but maybe someday?
AV1 will require hardware encoding. It’s more complex to encode than HEVC.
IMHO, by the time you get enough CPU power to do AV1 in software, video resolution to 8K will be a thing and the whole thing will drive around the block again 
I wondered about this after posting, and did some testing to see how close to real-time encoding speeds I could get the SVT encoder on my 5800X3D.
It wasn’t even close. haha
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