vlc-libde265

[RWL-69]

Summary: libde265 VLC plugin to allow VLC to play HEVC videos.
URLS: https://www.libde265.org/ https://github.com/strukturag/vlc-libde265

Why not in Fedora : Fear of patents. Distribution limits for the libde265 which is already by RPMFusion. https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/package/free/libde265/

Licence is LGPL
NOTES: RPMFusion already supplies libde265 and this would just be an extension of that package for VLC which is also supplied by RPM fusion. With more videos being provided as HEVC, this is a requirement.

[leigh123linux]

This requires vlc-2.2 or below, see the readme.

https://github.com/strukturag/vlc-libde265/blob/master/README.md

[RWL-69]

Oops, missed the version number. Still cannot get HEVC videos to play in VLC. Thanks.

[leigh123linux]

It appears it does have vlc-3 support but the code fails to compile.

https://github.com/strukturag/vlc-libde265/releases/tag/0.1.7

x.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o src/demux/.libs/libde265demux_plugin_la-libde265demux.o
src/codec/libde265dec.c: In function 'Decode':
src/codec/libde265dec.c:384:13: error: 'decoder_t' has no member named 'b_pace_control'
  384 |     if (!dec->b_pace_control && (sys->late_frames > 0) &&
      |             ^~
src/codec/libde265dec.c:392:13: error: 'decoder_t' has no member named 'b_pace_control'
  392 |     if (!dec->b_pace_control &&
      |             ^~
src/codec/libde265dec.c: In function 'Open':
src/codec/libde265dec.c:879:10: error: 'decoder_t' has no member named 'pf_decode_video'; did you mean 'pf_queue_video'?
  879 |     dec->pf_decode_video = Decode;
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |          pf_queue_video
src/codec/libde265dec.c:886:8: error: 'decoder_t' has no member named 'b_need_packetized'
  886 |     dec->b_need_packetized = true;
      |        ^~
src/demux/libde265demux.c: In function 'Open':
src/demux/libde265demux.c:118:15: error: 'demux_t' has no member named 'b_force'
  118 |     if (!demux->b_force) {
      |               ^~
src/demux/libde265demux.c:139:19: warning: implicit declaration of function 'stream_Peek' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  139 |     buffer_size = stream_Peek(demux->s, &buffer, DETECT_BUFFER_SIZE);
      |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~
src/demux/libde265demux.c: In function 'Demux':

[kwizart]

I can read https://www.libde265.org/hevc-bitstreams/tos-1720x720-cfg01.mkv with vlc in f37

Please verify to have switched to rpmfusion ffmpeg instead of fedora

[RWL-69]

Just a comment. I found out that even though I had HEVC code on my computer, HEVC content wouldn't play and then I tested in a different account last night, and HEVC worked. I found that there is something in the vlcrc file that was preventing HEVC from playing. Don't know what, for anyone else having HEVC issues, something to look for.