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vlc-libde265

Plugins for VLC 2.x to support HEVC decoding using libde265. For VLC versions below 2.1, a modified MKV demuxer is included which has support for HEVC streams. For VLC versions below 2.2, modified MPEG-TS and MP4 demuxers are included which have support for HEVC streams.

Building

Execute the default configure / make steps:

$ ./configure
$ make

If you fetched vlc-libde265 from GitHub, you will need to generate the configure script first:

$ ./autogen.sh

Dependencies

In addition to a compiler, a couple of other packages must be installed in order to compile the plugin:

libvlccore-dev
libde265-dev (>= 0.7)
libebml-dev
libmatroska-dev
libdvbpsi-dev

These should be available from the package management on any recent version of Debian / Ubuntu.

Patches

See the patches folder for changes applied to the VLC source code of the demuxers to make them compile against older versions of VLC.

Settings

In the advanced settings of VLC, a couple of properties can be configured for the libde265 plugins (below "Demuxers" and "Video codecs"):

Framerate for raw bitstream demuxer (25 fps is assumed by default)
Number of threads to use for decoding ("auto" by default)
Whether the deblocking filter should be disabled (enabled by default)
Whether the sample-adaptive-offset filter should be disabled (enabled by default)

Packages

Binary packages for Ubuntu are available on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~strukturag/+archive/libde265