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Playing HEVC problems

Postby thelamer » 05 Feb 2014 00:27

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.

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Re: Playing HEVC problems

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 Feb 2014 12:32

x265 is a HEVC ENcoder.

You need to update your libavcodec. Well, you'd better upgrade your Ubuntu, to be honest...
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Re: Playing HEVC problems

Postby andrew46 » 07 Feb 2014 07:51

I will amend that guide to make it a little clearer that x265 is required for encoding not decoding :)

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Re: Playing HEVC problems

Postby kal_s » 24 Mar 2014 22:43

Does VLC player 2.0.10-1.el6 on CentOS 6.4 decode H.265 bit streams ? It doesn't recognize .h265 as a valid media file type; vlc player version 2.2.0 on Win7 plays back .h265 !


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