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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by photojosh on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:47PM (#18395932)
Which codecs do you mean? Guess I'm weird; I have only ever used h264 and now hevc, any others are only ancient lower-than-SD quality files which transcode without any issues. (Many files are .mkv; they still work without a transcode.)
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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by xienze on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:11PM (#18396096)
Well DVDs are MPEG2, and some really old Blu-Ray releases are as well. You also see VC-1 in older releases. Probably should have been a little more specific, Plex will insist on transcoding if the client can't handle the codec natively. Generally speaking that means AVC or HEVC (on newer devices) only.
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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by photojosh on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:10PM (#18429877)
True, thanks. There's AV1, VP9 and related codecs too, but I've not seen many sources that only provide those and not one of the MPEG codecs as well. I've moved towards HEVC for anything I want to hang on to long-term, now that all my devices can handle it.
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