- I use older version of vlc, and I need x265 plugin/codec, how to install it? Vlc version 2.0.5 for windows (I cannot install newer, because, it's vlc based player, not pure vlc) comment.
- Apr 24, 2015 How to Convert H.265 videos for easier playback with VLC Player. Load H.265 Videos. Launch the best H.265 Video Converter; click “Add Video” and load your H.265/HEVC files. Or directly drag and drip your H.265 source to the program. It supports batch conversion so.
- And then launch the program to open the main interface. Step 2: Open x265 hevc video to the program. You can click “Open File” button in the main interface to select the x265 hevc video file and add it to the program. Or you can click “File” drop-down button to select “Open File” option to open the video file.
Currently my main media player on Windows (10 Pro x64) is VLC but I noticed that when I want to play UHD content (2K, 4K videos) its freezes.
Solution 1: Download and install K-Lite Codec Pack. Playback of x265 supports the K-Lite codec pack installed in system starting from version 10.1.0: Download K-Lite. If you don’t want to install anything superfluous, try LAV 0.59.1 or later version: Download LAVFilters. Playing of x265 supports by VLC media player starting from. I recently discovered that I can use vlc as an encoder and I would like to convert some 1080p that I have in x265 HEVC. The question is that I do not know how to install this codec in vlc, reading on the page I saw a link to where I can download the 'source code'.
My PC's configuration: Intel i7 3770, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, nVidia GTX 970 4GB.
The sound is OK but the picture is freezing (2-3 frames per minutes).
I've tried to set the codecs or enabled/disabled the GPU acceleration without success.
What should I set to play this kind of content flowless?
P.S.: Media Player Classic plays the same file so smooth but I want to keep VLC as main player.
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I have succeeded in reproducing the problem using VLC version 2.2.4.
The problem of freezing exists only if'Hardware-accelerated decoding' is set to something else than 'Disable'.
Apparently VLC now supports GPU decoding, but I believe it is done in a very inefficientmanner.
The articleHow to enable gpu accelerated decoding in VLCsays this :
the data is decoded in the GPU at the decoding stage and then transferred back to the player so that the other stages, filtering and streaming for instance, can be processed.
I have managed better frame-rate when setting'Hardware-accelerated decoding' to 'Disable'.This puts the entire burden on the CPU and so requires a strong CPU.
User Journeyman Geek recommends increasing the thread numberunder Tools / Preferences / Video Codecs' / FFMPEG / Threads,but it worked for me with the default value of 0 which means 'Auto'.You might experiment further with other values for Threads.I just remark that the FFMPEG library is not used for all video formats.
VLC apparently does not support at the moment (2016) the x265 codec,since x265 videos did not play when downloaded from 4ksamples.com.However, everything worked flawlessly with Media Player Classic.
Edit (2018) : VLC now works successfully with these files.
harrymc
harrymcI've been experimenting a bit with the puppies bath in 4k video off 4ksamples.com as well as a few others. I got a combination that worked with my test video. I note reasonably fast storage is essential for quality playback. Considering some trial and error is needed, do backup the current settings. These settings work on a 3770, 16gb of ram and a gforce 980TI which I know is 4k capable
I've changed quite a few advanced settings to get it to work. In theory I want DXVA to be enabled but that causes VLC to crash.
Under simple mode in preferences go to Tools -> Preferences and Input / Codecs and in the drop-down box for Skip H.264 in-loop deblocking filter change it to All. This is recommended by VLC
Switch to show all under preferences and try these changes
I turned off all filters under Video Filters. This was the last thing I did, and seemed to help the most so I'd start here
Under 'Video Codecs' - > FFMPEG I set my threads to 3. You might want to experiment with higher or lower numbers.
Make sure everything under output modules/DirectX is unticked.
Install Cygwin on your Windows machine. You can set up your ssh key and allow yourself to login with an Xterm from a windows system. TrueType fonts with X are usually done using fontconfig. How to install xterm themes for windows. Jun 15, 2016 Colours for xterm XTerm*background: #272822 XTerm*foreground: #303030 XTerm*cursorColor: #303030. The capitalisation at the start of XTerm means it's a class definition. To be more precise we can use all lower case which matches instances of the XTerm application, xterm*foreground. Either works fine.
X265 Codec Player
These changes seem to have worked.
For reference, once I stripped out the commented lines, my vlcrc looks like
I have a gist with my full vlcrc for 4k here
Journeyman Geek♦Journeyman Geekprotected by Community♦Jan 16 '18 at 19:08
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