Subj : Re: H.265 video
To   : Ksource
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Jun 27 2021 03:49 pm

On 6/18/2021 12:57 AM, Ksource wrote:
>> I have a camera that takes H.264 and H.265 compressed video.  With
>> the 264 setting, my laptop seems to have no issues playing the videos
>> back.  With the 265 setting, the video is choppy.  I am running
>> debian and did some searching.  I do appear to have the libraries
>> installed for 265.  Do I also need to install the 'dev'
>> libraries/packages to get the video to playback correctly?  Are there
>> any tips/tricks you all have re: playing H.265 video on a linux
>> machine?
>
> A lot of GPUs have built-in h264 hardware acceleration. I don't know
> the state of hardware h264 acceleration, but it's probably much more
> spotty, particularly if it's an older laptop. I'd bet dollars to
> doughnuts that your machine just doesn't have any hardware
> acceleration for h265

From other messages (i3-4000M) QuickSync does have h.264, but not h.265
hardware support, so you are correct in your assertion... I did take the
time to check.

Intel Skylake (5000 series) added hardware h.265
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