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
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