Codec H265 (HEVC)

Today I discovered that no WD media player can read video files with H265 codes (HEVC).
Most of the files around are with this codec.
My WDTV Live Hub is now becoming useless, please do something.

[quote=“Gianluca_Colombo, post:1, topic:159069”]
Today I discovered that no WD media player can read video files with H265 codes (HEVC).[/quote]
Hardly surprising, considering the hardware-platform for the most “recent” WDTVs is from 2010/2011.

That’s not true, and you know it.

Consider the WDTV-devices discontinued and unsupported.
Plus they can’t do aynthing anyway, the chip in all WDTVs just doesn’t support H265.

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next discovery will be that they don’t support 10-Bit or 4K either :wink:

Fun Fact: even the latest WDTV’s only have a Single Core Processor running at 700Mhz

here’s a pic of a 720p H.265 short film playing on my Android Octa core Cortex A53 @ 1.2GHz

as you can see CPU0, CPU1,CPU4 and CPU5 are being used to decode H.265 at this scene
sure, this is Software decoding and Hardware decoding might not require as many CPU Core … but it does give you and idea of the processing power required for these new codecs.

Raspberry Pi 3 with Quad Core at 1.2Ghz can handle 720p/1080p H.265 … but it does run a bit HOT … no 4K though, but my Android Octo-Core can :slight_smile:

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