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enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding
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Raspberry Pi 5 drops codec hardware acceleration except for HEVC decode
Most devices can indeed most likely handle software decode of more common resolutions, codecs and bitrates. But I'd really hope they'd pick the one that won't suck up all the battery, so H264. This line of thought is supported by the fact that YouTube still provides an H264 option with most if not all videos.
With higher bitrate things, HEVC seems to grow in popularity but even software decode support is not everywhere. Netflix for example requires the installation of HEVC support on Windows to play 4K content.
Actually hardware-accelerated video decode is even spottier and more unreliable across most platforms. The JS API for codec support (canPlayType) literally returns "maybe" and "probably". It's quite bad.
So far the best compatibility I've seen has been Edge with flags on Windows (MPEG-2, H264, HEVC, AV1, VP8, VP9 with most also supporting accelerated encode). It still fails with some content (Dolby Vision P5 colors are incorrect, HEVC Rext doesn't play - more info about HEVC is available here https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...). Chrome on macOS is a close second in terms of codec support.
The worst in terms of HW acceleration being all the browsers on desktop Linux-s, few and fragile combinations that offer limited and janky support. But it's slowly improving. This combined with the not-the-latest hardware many use, means things like VP9 or AV1 tend to stutter.
I'd love to see some more generic stats, but considering the APIs aren't sufficient to determine actual support, these might be difficult to gather.
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Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support
> The 'right' solution would be to just use system codecs for everything. Many apps need good implementations of image codecs. They just need to be implemented once by the OS vendor (or the toolkit on Linux).
Windows has done this and is still doing this, but the decade-long track history so far is that this does not work well. It can work, in a very limited scope and if you have a lot of influence.
Sure, it's really nice if an 8K@60Hz HDR HEVC video plays perfectly straight in your browser or desktop app, but more often than not, it just won't. You don't have the right browser, the extension installed (due to license agreements), good enough graphics drivers or someone has forgotten a flag yet again.
And we haven't even gotten to the immense amount of variation each codec introduces or the potential attack surface.
How shit the situation is with just HEVC (and thus also basically HEIC): https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
> Just file a bug against your OS.
In the end that "just" carries a lot of burden, it can't be the users reporting these issues.
It's just way easier to leech off of ffmpeg and similar, and let it deal with all the formats. Instead of hoping that maybe you can leverage what the OS gives you, that it works and works correctly in all your edge-cases.
Though not everything is that gloomy, there are Vulkan extensions that might (in the future) simplify cross-platform image and video decoding (and HW acceleration).
- Ubuntu 22.04 hevc video playback in chrome
- Solution for ZoneMinder and Reolink Cams and High Efficiency Video Coding H.265
- Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome
- What are your pet peeves about how people use your plex? This is one of my biggest
- Proper way to watch HEVC on supported browser like Chromium
- Chrome now has optional HEVC/h265 support
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Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?
I think there are a few patches that can enable HEVC hardware decoding with chromium. Though I am a firefox user so I didn't test whether these patches works or not. https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...
JBOPS
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Controlling 4k access based on location
Maybe not with stock Plex, but Tautulli with the JBOPS scripts should be able to do it.
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Tautulli kill script failing to terminate session
I've been running the killscript to stop 4K transcodes for years, and I've just noticed that it doesn't work any longer. When it's triggered, I get the following error in Tautulli logs:
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Help with limiterr.py (Tautulli)
I am attempting to limit stream auto play at night and I found this limiterr python script was the only option that seems to be available running on tautuilli.(https://github.com/blacktwin/JBOPS/blob/master/killstream/limiterr.py).
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There's has to be a better system to just change the default remote streaming video setting to automatically use what the server is configured for rather than it being defaulted to 720p on a new client.
I recommend using Tautulli and this https://github.com/blacktwin/JBOPS/tree/master/killstream to automatically kill streams. Also configure it to reference https://mediaclients.wiki whenever it kills the stream so users know how to fix it.
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Any way to use thetvdb's "joined order" or "alternate order" in plex?
What about this script https://github.com/blacktwin/JBOPS/blob/master/utility/merge_multiepisodes.py
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Best programs to use alongside Plex?
Tautulli for monitoring and notifications, plus some scripts for "maintenance," such as killing 4K transcodes and stopping remote streams after they've been paused for X minutes. These are from the JBOPS repository.
- Disable chapters thumbnails screenshots
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Need help with streaming_service_availability.py from JBOPS
Script: https://github.com/blacktwin/JBOPS/blob/master/reporting/streaming_service_availability.py
- "hide_episode_spoilers.py" PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
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/r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2023-04-24
Unless someone has already created what you're looking for (JBOPS/reporting is a good initial place to look), you'll probably have to write something yourself that makes calls to Tautulli's API.
What are some alternatives?
enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco
Tautulli - A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server.
jellyfin-ffmpeg - FFmpeg for Jellyfin
Tdarr - Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)
SVT-AV1
Kometa - Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.
libheif - libheif is an HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder.
automatic-ripping-machine - Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts
Joshiraku - Kaleido-subs release of Joshiraku (Rakugo Girls)
Plex-scripts - Plex, the arr's and tautulli scripts coming from user requests
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
Plex-Cleaner - A script to clean up movies and episodes in Plex Media Server