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How to Rip 4K HEVC Blu-ray to Plex with GPU Acceleration?

Diana Joan

Jan 13, 2017 09:46 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray, NAS

Since ffmpeg supports HEVC so Plex and Kodi support HEVC video transport and streaming. 4K Blu-ray is normally encoded with HEVC and a few part is encoded with VP9 so when you want to rip 4K Blu-ray to NAS for Plex streaming on 4K TV or Xbox One S, you can rip HEVC 4K Blu-ray to H.265 MP4 or H.265 MKV for Plex.

Getting Started

HEVC encoding is CPU-taking so when you rip 4K Blu-ray to Plex by H.265 codec, you should use a Blu-ray Ripper supporting NVIDIA CUDA hardware acceleration and a high-end computer greared with CUDA-enabled GPU. In addition, comparing to Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray is harder to decrypt cause it has more complex encryption...

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