diff --git a/video/x265/BUILD b/video/x265/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..044a6f20134
--- /dev/null
+++ b/video/x265/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+  OPTS+=" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DHIGH_BIT_DEPTH=ON" &&
+
+  cmake source/ $OPTS &&
+
+  default_make
diff --git a/video/x265/DEPENDS b/video/x265/DEPENDS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69a8fa7c81d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/video/x265/DEPENDS
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+depends yasm
+depends cmake
diff --git a/video/x265/DETAILS b/video/x265/DETAILS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a943ad17c43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/video/x265/DETAILS
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+          MODULE=x265
+         VERSION=1.5
+          SOURCE=$MODULE\_$VERSION.tar.gz
+      SOURCE_URL=https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads
+SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$MODULE\_$VERSION
+      SOURCE_VFY=sha256:bd9dccce7bca04f39ed45f1070e3cca64e29a528be4e0f03e412ac4978618b01
+        WEB_SITE=http://x265.org/index.html
+         ENTERED=20150304
+         UPDATED=20150304
+           SHORT="encoding video streams into the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format"
+
+cat << EOF
+x265 is an open-source project and free application library for encoding video streams into the
+H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format. x265 is available to anyone under the terms of
+the GNU GPL 2 license.
+EOF