Support for HEVC/H.265

**ademarfj** · 10-23-2015, 08:04 AM

Hi,
Do you intend to add support to HEVC?

**Paul** · 10-23-2015, 09:29 AM

Yes, Mezzmo supports HEVC / h.265. Several of the Mezzmo device profiles already have it included for those devices that support playing this video codec.

**jbinkley60** · 11-02-2015, 12:30 AM

One of the challenges with HEVC / h.265 is that it is barely supported in GPU hardware right now and without hardware support it is a tremendous CPU hog on general purpose CPUs. Also, the file size savings is around 40%. It is going to be interesting to see the adoption of this newer standard. At lower bit rats general purpose CPUs may be fine but at higher quality bitrates, hardware GPU or special purpose hardware will be a must.

**ademarfj** · 05-13-2016, 10:29 AM

Thanks for your answer!

**Rirou** · 01-04-2017, 07:03 AM

Hello,

I relaunch this old topic as one year has passed and now hardwares are available with capacity to read h265. FFMPEG is able to manage it. So I repost ademarfj's question : is there any roadmap to implement h265/hevc support?

Thank You
Rirou

**Paul** · 01-04-2017, 09:03 AM

Hi Rirou,

Mezzmo v5.x supports h.265 / HEVC already

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Many Mezzmo device profiles already have this h.265 / HEVC support included for those devices that support playing this video codec.

If you have a device that supports h.265 / HEVC and want a device profile for it, then let us know and we'll help out.