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Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

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On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 12:58 -0500, Intense Red wrote:
> > Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the
> > error you're getting?
> 
>    VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading 
> the file (a video from a security camera).
> 
>    I'm guessing it's some oddity in the file format produced by the cheap 
> Chinese security camera. Purportedly ffmpeg can convert the file to another more 
> common format; that's my next step to deal with the issue.
> 
> > > "I have various h265 CODECS installed" 
> > VLC does not require any codecs to work, what do you mean by that?
> 
>    That was me foolishly installing various CODECs in the hope it might help. 
> :-(⠀⠀
> 
> 
I had a similar issues with a camera and its H264 files. The fix I
found was to make sure the camera was set to CBR not VBR (constant vs
variable bit rate). 
-- 
Chris

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Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Intense Red <intnsred@golgotha.net> - 2021-10-30 22:30 +0200
  Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-30 23:10 +0200
    Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-30 23:10 +0200
    Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Intense Red <intnsred@golgotha.net> - 2021-10-31 19:00 +0100
      Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-10-31 20:40 +0100
        Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Intense Red <intnsred@golgotha.net> - 2021-11-01 00:00 +0100
      Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Chris Ramsden <chris.ramsden@gmail.com> - 2021-10-31 22:20 +0100
  Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos Michael Castellon <castellonmichael@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 04:20 +0100

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