[PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Try this:

Go to the following in Firefox:

https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h265

Click Download  on the first one - you will get the codec error

If your CPU is Kaby Lake, try that on Chrome.

If not, do it from the Debian-compiled Chromium off the link I posted and it will work.

Youtube is probably looking at the browser header and transcoding the video on the fly to something other than H.265

Ted

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Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC

"Like I said the only option for Firefox, apparently, is downloading the H.265 video, transcoding it to H.264 via Ffmpeg, then viewing it in Firefox."

I'm running Linux debian 4.19.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.260-1 (2022-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux with Firefox 102.5.Oesr and I can play this HEVC H.265 Youtube test video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2bL--exAM