The x265 Upgrade includes UHDcode DirectShow, which upgrades your Windows PC to enable playback of MP4 files containing HEVC (H.265). More importantly, 5KPlayer is extremely user-friendly and lightweight. Without downloading a codec (encoder or decoder) or a plug-in, you can enjoy the latest video standard for quality and compression. The unique core of 5KPlayer makes it recognize and read an H.265 video fast, and process and display it on the user computer as quickly as possible.

But sadly it's only available on Windows.ĥK Player can play H.265 encoded videos as perfectly as they are one. Besides, other than the powerful ability of playing HEVC codec videos, you can also download 3D and blu-ray movies/videos for playing on this marvelous video player, which makes it unique among the best HEVC players. Potplayer also serves as a free HEVC player for HEVC/H.265 encoded videos playing as well as any other multimedia formats or codecs like H.264, MP4, FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV etc. The source code changes are available on: zip version can be used without installation, just extract to any folder and run the 'vlc.exe'. The VLC media player with libde265 HEVC video codec is available for download on GitHub: Intel Core i7 with 4 cores, running at 2.3GHz. The minimum system requirements for viewing 4K UHD video is a PC with an Intel or AMD CPU equivalent to Like the Mac OS X version released before VLC plays HEVC video in 4K Ultra HD resolution at a frame rate of 30 fps on a Windows PC.

The libde265 team released a production version of the popular VLC media player for Windows capable to play HEVC 4K Ultra HD video. The good news is that there are still some free video players out there for you to playback H.265 video. Although H.265 is superior to H.264 in so many aspects, however, the playback of H.265 is not that convenient as H.264 since it has poor compatibility with many devices and applications. The main difference is that HEVC allows for further reduced file size and therefore reduce required bandwidth, of your live video streams. It is more advanced than H.264 in several ways. H.265, the full name is High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the new successor to Advanced Video Coding (AVC) also known as H.264.

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