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benwaggoner
19th December 2013, 18:02
So, I'm making some pretty good looking HEVC streams from x265 now, and playing around with some alternative encoders as well.

For playback, what players are people liking? Accurate playback, good performance, good audio sync?

So far using the Strongeme decoder (http://strongene.com/en/hevc/decoder/download.jsp)in Windows Media Player has worked the best for me, handling up to UHD 24p playback on my 12-core Sandy Bridge workstation (I imagine WPP is a big help here!). VLC will load content, but gets lousy fps at high frame sizes.

Anyone have any other players they like?
Guest
19th December 2013, 20:35
Better change that title or people will complain about rule 12 and why it is selectively enforced. :D :readrule:
benwaggoner
19th December 2013, 23:34
Better change that title or people will complain about rule 12 and why it is selectively enforced. :D :readrule:
Thanks :)!

(title was "Best players for UHD playback")
Procrastinating
20th December 2013, 07:47
LAV filters has always worked great, and continues to work with h265.

I just install the Kawaii Codec Pack which combines LAV, Reclock, MADVR and MPC-HC (and xy-vsfilter) and be done with it.
kieranrk
20th December 2013, 13:34
So far using the Strongeme decoder (http://strongene.com/en/hevc/decoder/download.jsp)in Windows Media Player has worked the best for me, handling up to UHD 24p playback on my 12-core Sandy Bridge workstation (I imagine WPP is a big help here!). VLC will load content, but gets lousy fps at high frame sizes.


It's a shame this thing is an (L)GPL violating libavcodec.
Sm3n
20th December 2013, 15:35
LAV filters has always worked great, and continues to work with h265.

I just install the Kawaii Codec Pack which combines LAV, Reclock, MADVR and MPC-HC (and xy-vsfilter) and be done with it.

Yes, I also have MPC-HC Nightly and LAV filters (+ AutoFrequency, Reclock, Madvr)
Works like a charm.
qyot27
23rd December 2013, 23:21
Even though my computer's CPU is ancient* and can't even handle H.264 at decent SD bitrate/featureset, and that I probably won't do any serious encoding of HEVC until the Matroska specs are officially updated for it, I'll just be using my own builds of FFmpeg and mpv.

*it's a Coppermine-based Celeron