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[Feature]: Extend video transcoding support #86
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Originally created by @zackpollard on GitHub (Jun 5, 2022).
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Video transcoding has now been added for MOV files, however this should be extended. Making a note here as we discussed so this can be picked up and worked on:
I believe this is everything we discussed around this, will update if I remember more.
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@JVT038 commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2022):
Could it be possible to check whether direct streaming is possible, before transcoding?
I know Edge supports HEVC for example (if the user paid), so transcoding would be unnecessary in that case.
Also, a lot of modern mobile devices support HEVC as well.
So check the compatibility before transcoding to save processing power.
@zackpollard commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2022):
I don't think we are planning to do live transcoding, we're going to be converting files at the point of upload and storing them on disk for simple playback. This will be configurable quality and format but default will likely be h264 in an mp4 container.
@bo0tzz commented on GitHub (Nov 26, 2022):
Having the option to downscale 4k videos for playback in the clients would also be nice, not all my devices are entirely happy about playing 4k :D
@palitu commented on GitHub (Nov 29, 2022):
I agree. I have a video that wont play in the web-ui, and also really doesn't need high res. I would be happy with live transcoding as an option, or a default setting for stored transcoded videos.
thanks :D
@akoyaxd commented on GitHub (Dec 23, 2022):
It would also help to avoid #958
@EnochPrime commented on GitHub (Jan 14, 2023):
Going on the assumption that there would not be live transcoding, it would be nice to have the following options:
@JosiahBull commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2023):
H264 is obviously great for wide device support for playback, but I'd personally support keeping the original version as @EnochPrime commented. I'd personally be miffed at losing my original quality backup.
Especially since H264 caps out at 2048x2048 8 bit iirc. Either storing the original as-is or converting to a format like H265 (to preserve 10 bit color, high resolution, and high framerates) would be ideal.
@EnochPrime commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2023):
The original version is kept, I was mistaken on the process when I made that comment. The transcoded files are in addition to the original.
@bt90 commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2023):
Isn't this just an additional preview file?
@printfuck commented on GitHub (Mar 29, 2023):
I've added a bunch of already optimal webm files, which when transcoded (with default settings) grew to 10 times the size of the original file.
I think there should either be an option to:
At least there should be an option to serve the original file by default. I feel like that's already there but I haven't found it yet.
@AngelaDMerkel commented on GitHub (Apr 28, 2023):
I am in agreement with @printfuck in this respect. I have a bunch of 6K and 8K 12bit videos which are extremely highly compressed timelapses already optimised using ffmpeg. Converting to h264 does bad things to them and introduces pretty wild amounts of dithering.
At this point, you might as well add a codec option, or multi codec support. Everything I have supports h265 and does so with hardware acceleration. I'd much rather save the bandwidth with more modern compression than worry about support for a codec with wide adoption
@jrasm91 commented on GitHub (May 28, 2023):
I believe with the exception of hardware support everything in this issue has been implemented. Hardware support probably deserves its own issue anyways, so I'm going to go ahead and close this as completed. Happy to reopen if there are more pending enhancements though.
@jianglai commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2024):
Is there an issue to track hardware transcoding support?
@automaton82 commented on GitHub (Aug 25, 2025):
I was forwarded to this ticket from https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/307.
I have a very large number (>5,000) videos in hevc/h265 .mp4 containers that Edge is perfectly capable of direct streaming. I can't transcode them since the burden is too large, so I just want to stream them. Plex is able to do so with the same videos.
Is there a ticket tracking direct streaming videos of this type like Plex does? I'd be happy to help implement as well, if needed.
@jrasm91 commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2025):
Sounds like you are looking for this:
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7666
@jrasm91 commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2025):
Oh, it sounds like you are actually asking for a video version of
isWebCompitible. I don't know off the type of my head if anything like that exists at the moment.@automaton82 commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2025):
Edge natively supports HEVC h265, for example:
There's no need to transcode it, it just has to be sent directly to be played.