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'''[[w:High Efficiency Video Coding|HEVC]]''' (High Efficiency Video Coding, sometimes called ''H.265'') is a new video compression format and is the successor of H.264. It was formalized on the 25th of November 2013 and published as [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=35424 ISO/IEC 23008-2:2013]. Work on the open source HEVC decoder and encoder ([http://x265.org/ x265]) is still being done, but a proposed implementation of the codec has been made available. | '''[[w:High Efficiency Video Coding|HEVC]]''' (High Efficiency Video Coding, sometimes called ''H.265'') is a new video compression format and is the successor of H.264. It was formalized on the 25th of November 2013 and published as [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=35424 ISO/IEC 23008-2:2013]. Work on the open source HEVC decoder and encoder ([http://x265.org/ x265]) is still being done, but a proposed implementation of the codec has been made available. | ||
== Support in | == Support in {{kodi}} == | ||
Kodi v14 now has software decoding support for HEVC. v15-based '''[[nightly builds]]''' have limited hardware decoding support for some devices, such as a few Android-based video decoders. | |||
== Hardware acceleration == | == Hardware acceleration == | ||
Revision as of 10:25, 4 January 2015
HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding, sometimes called H.265) is a new video compression format and is the successor of H.264. It was formalized on the 25th of November 2013 and published as ISO/IEC 23008-2:2013. Work on the open source HEVC decoder and encoder (x265) is still being done, but a proposed implementation of the codec has been made available.
Support in Kodi
Kodi v14 now has software decoding support for HEVC. v15-based nightly builds have limited hardware decoding support for some devices, such as a few Android-based video decoders.
Hardware acceleration
There are very few hardware video decoding options out on the market right now, which means that any HEVC decoding, XBMC or not, will require a fairly recent and powerful desktop-class processor.