When can plex av1 encode be expected?

[pshanew]

There’s a feature suggestion for it. Though it doesn’t seem to be very popular:

AV1 transcode support

So I get that HEVC transcode support will always be a no-go since it requires legal headache, but AV1 is an open standard. Now we are beginning to see AV1 hardware encoding support arrive in CPU’s, and GPU’s. I would be really disappointed if Plex doesn’t make the move to add the option for AV1 transcoding within the next couple years.

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.