Plex and h.265 on DS415+

You might be familiar with h.264 encoded moviefiles. They usually play quite nicely on Plex if you're streaming to, for example, iOS devices. The files doesn't need to be transcoded at all (there are exceptions..) and they require minimum CPU-load on your NAS. However, h.265-encoded files are quite new and, to make a long story short, h.265 creates smaller files than h.264 with equal or better quality. If you want to tryout h.265 encoding I recommend "Handbrake". However, be sure you've got a pretty fast CPU. Anyway. Plex in most cases today requires transcoding of h.265 material (iOS devices doesn't support h.265-video at the time I write this for example). I've done some experimenting with h.265 and can safely say that Plex on my DS415+ can properly transcode and stream h.265 DVD-rips to my iOS-devices. I've tried quite a few and had no issues. It causes heavyload on the NAS so don't expect several streams at the same time to work. I've tried a few 1080p h.265-files but the NAS isn't fast enough to deal with it. So, if you're ripping your DVD-collection to be playable in Plex, feel free to try out h.265!