[mythtv-users] Issues with Video Playback

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Mon Aug 25 14:56:36 UTC 2014


On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:26:38 -0500, you wrote:

>Firstly, I must apologize if this is not the right place to put this
>question. I know we don't have H265 codec on the mythffmpeg fork yet,
>and I believe that we also don't support playback of H265 videos.
>
>However, I do have couple movies that are encoded in H265 and I can
>hear the audio but unable to see the video.
>
>I tried to use the mythffmpeg to see if I can transcode it back to
>H264 but it doesn't seem to like any commands I give.
>
>Is there any way I can get this working? Any place someone can point
>me to will be helpful. Basically I want to see the movies I have in
>HEVC.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ash

If mplayer has the H.265 codec, just install that and set it up as the
alternate player.  If you set it up correctly, there will be a menu
option on the file to use it to play any file.


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