Playback of x265 files

na641 · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:54 am Post subject: Playback of x265 files

I am having a terrible time trying to playback x265 encoded video. I have tried using gstreamer and vlc (through totem,parole, dragon, and vlc), none of which seem to output any video. I'm a little suprised as I enabled x265 use flag globally, as well as ensuring all packages are compiled with it. I'm hoping there is something i've missed that isn't too difficult to implement. Does anyone have any experience enabling playback of these files?

Jaglover · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:57 am Post subject:

AFAIK x265 flag affects encoding only. You have decoding problem.
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kikko · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:35 am Post subject:

Hi na641,
No way, I've tested several players too but no one can play HEVC-encoded files correctly
VLC player seems capable but lacks of an x265 flag (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506322)

The only way I've found is to play videos through ffmpeg directly: the USE flag "sdl" enables a tiny player "/usr/bin/ffplay"

I haven't tested it, if you succeed let me know :wink:

Leio · Developer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 494 Location: Estonia

I've filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/521934 to remember to check H.265 content works with gstreamer eventually
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