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4K h.265 playback on ANY computer for 214 € - nvidia GTX 960 and LAV Filters, step by step.

Started May 8, 2015 | Discussions thread
josefwells Forum Member • Posts: 66
Re: 4K h.265 playback on ANY computer for 214 € - nvidia GTX 960 and LAV Filters, step by step.

Alex Karahalios wrote:

Although VLC has H.265 support, I always have had trouble playing Samsung NX1 4K H.265 files on my Mac. I have a MacBook Pro (Retina 15in), which has plenty of horsepower.

I finally discovered a wonderful free, open source, cross platform app, mpv (http://mpv.io), which plays H.265 content perfectly and leverages hardware acceleration on graphics cards. No more stuttering video.

When I need to convert H.265 to other formats, I use a Mac app called iffmpeg (http://www.iffmpeg.com), which is a GUI front end to ffmpeg. You can run the open source ffmpeg directly on the command line, but getting all the commands argument right is a hassle.

Oh man, thank you so much!  I just installed mpv on my linux machine (Haswell Xeon, think core i5, and a nvidia 760).  I was having trouble with vlc, mplayer, totem, and others.

mpv is based on the mplayer codebase, and shares many of its features.  I can play my NX500 UHD videos with no stuttering.  I saw about 2.5 cores being used for playback.

I grabbed the package from the deb-multimedia repository.

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