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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