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.

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

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.

See the patches folder for changes applied to the VLC source code of the demuxers to make them compile against older versions of VLC.

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)

Binary packages for Ubuntu are available on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~strukturag/+archive/libde265

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