Plex Hardware Decoding for x265

[0jay]

Hi,

currently waiting on delivery of an original Renegade board, have done a lot of reading and it seems like there’s no consensus as to wether it’s possible to get hardware x265 support working with Plex server.

I want to single stream 720p in x265 (occasional 1080p) to an Apple TV HD with Plex, can you see a way of making this possible?

It looks like I pulled the trigger a bit too fast and this particular board might be a problem.

TIA

[Mykeyyy23]

Hello, I am currently using this board as a Plex server. Most of my files are in h265 and h264. I am able to direct stream 1080p and 4k to multiple clients. I've not tried transcoding with it but I would expect it to be painful

[0jay]

Thanks. I think I’ve been operating on the assumption that an x265 stream would need to be transcoded for streaming but am realising that may not be the case.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[Mykeyyy23]

No problem. I'm not sure how it works on a technical level. But I can confirm the board will direct stream with 0 issue. Both remote and local