Assuming the client hardware supports playback you can just use direct play, which involves no transcoding between server and client. Plex does not HAVE to transcode anything. I don't think that you've quite grasped what I've said here. That's why now if I want to view 4k material, especially HEVC, I use kodi instead of plex to save myself the headache and server load of trying to use plex. With kodi on the exact same client machine and server it plays the files flawlessly and doesn't transcode, my server cpu usage is still on like 1% or lower. I play things on my shield TV for example, with plex on most 4k content I have it tries to transcode it, and fails miserably most times even using a 6700K in the server. Yes, but when it comes to 4k videos which is what the OP is saying about, kodi has the edge because plex needs much more cpu power to transcode the video. But Plex can ALSO do this, Plex can avoid transcoding entirely if the client can decode that and transcode only if the client device requires it. My i7 3770k powered Kodi HTPC has no problem with this for example.
I mean, yes and no? The hardware in the Kodi machine also has to be able to decode that video with either hardware acceleration or brute force CPU power. Idle (not encoding) is around 0-2% as this is a dedicated storage/Plex box.
I do have my encoder settings set fo VeryFast, caching temp files to an SSD, encoding preset to prefer encoding speed over quality. Let me know what you guys running 4k HEVC have in your setup. Maybe there are some tricks I'm not aware of.
#X265 decoder for plex on mac install#
I guess my question is: should I hold out for some sort of HEVC patch for Plex, install a GPU in the system to offload some encoding, buy a better CPU setup, or.maybe just live with pre-transcoded 1080p/4k footage at the expense of time on the front end? Some suggestions I've seen are to run the audio at AC3 instead of TrueHD or whatever the default is for HEVC.
#X265 decoder for plex on mac full#
My issue is I have inconsistent playback running full res/bitrate ually maybe a little less. Recently I've been playing 4K HEVC files on various devices including an iPhone X, Xbox One X, and also a Macbook Pro. So I have a 6600k in my network box powering my Plex server.
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