I am having problems playing any HEVC content, first I tried the nightly PPA and got "core decoder error: Codec `hevc' (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265)) is not supported." when trying to play the Tears Of Steel Example FIle found here:
http://labs.divx.com/node/127909 (DivX HEVC 720p)
So after some reading I figured I needed to compile myself with --enable-x265, I pulled the latest GIT and installed https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265 before configuring.
I followed this guide and only modified the configure line in the vlc install section http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2141949 .
I was getting the same error so I just did a clone of the current GIT ./bootstrap, ./configure --enable-x265, make.
The resulting binary bin/vlc-static runs but again complains "core decoder error: Codec `hevc' (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265)) is not supported."
Am I missing something obvious ? Does anyone else have HEVC decoding working or is this still not implemented ?
Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit 3.2.0-58-generic
I compiled the latest ffmpeg and am able to play the file with ffplay.