<div dir="ltr">I had a feeling I'd get some flack about my comment. :) <div><br></div><div>I get torn between using the latest and greatest and something that is proven stable. It seems like many tech people like to use the latest and greatest and government and industry likes to use things that have been tried and true for many many years. </div><div><br></div><div>I was saying that I wasn't thinking that industry will move to h265 because it's very new. Also, many of us on here have cheap boxes that use mythfrontend. Many of the nvidia boards will decode h264 just fine, but if you want to do h265, you're going to have to upgrade. I think back and remember how much of a challenge and joy it was to get VDPAU to hardware decode mpeg2 and h264, and I feel like we're all in a good spot for that. Moving to h.265, I think, it's not going to gain much momentum. Just my opinion.... </div><div><br></div><div>Now I will say that because of all my thoughts, I haven't investigated h265 very much at all, and it's probably mostly because my hardware won't be able to decode it. If h265 offers better quality at lower file sizes, I might look into it more. Even still, I think it will take years for h265 to catch on because h264 is so widely used and supported in hardware in so many devices.</div><div><br></div><div>In saying all this, I still think that myth (and others) should build h265 into their system, but I just don't see it being widely used for years to come.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 8:27 AM, dennis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deg@outlook.com" target="_blank">deg@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am using the vlc package from the Doug McMahon ppa, which works well for most H.265 files I have come across. Lots of good updates for Trusty under this ppa.<br>
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The details of how to enable the ppa are at <a href="https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/<u></u>+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media</a> .<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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And that downloaded videos are already starting to be encoded in<br>
H.265. I have two so far, and VLC can play them just fine in Windows<br>
7, but I have yet to find a way to play them on my Mythbuntu 14.04<br>
box. Mythfrontend and mplayer both lock up if I play them, and VLC<br>
complains it has no way of playing an hevc file.<br>
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