Playing HEVC problems

[thelamer]

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.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

x265 is a HEVC ENcoder.

You need to update your libavcodec. Well, you'd better upgrade your Ubuntu, to be honest...

[andrew46]

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

[kal_s]

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 !