HEVC Video Support?

[koragg97]

Hello, I'm going to be upgrading from my Midnight Black Snapdragon S5 to the Ocean Blue 512GB Exynos Note9 and would like to know if it supports HEVC x265 video files (in .m4v & .mkv formats) ? I can play them on my PC via KMPlayer but would be great if the stock Video Player & Gallery on the Note9 support them as well so I wouldn't have to download MX Player instead. Any info is appreciated, thank you for reading

PS: Please quote my post when you reply as I don't check Note9 forums often (yet ).

 

[paul_59]

Hello, I'm going to be upgrading from my Midnight Black Snapdragon S5 to the Ocean Blue 512GB Exynos Note9 and would like to know if it supports HEVC x265 video files (in .m4v & .mkv formats) ? I can play them on my PC via KMPlayer but would be great if the stock Video Player & Gallery on the Note9 support them as well so I wouldn't have to download MX Player instead. Any info is appreciated, thank you for reading

PS: Please quote my post when you reply as I don't check Note9 forums often (yet ).

I haven't used this feature but tried to answer your question on my Eyxnos Note 9

It seems to have the option to select hevc in video recording settings of standard camera app.

A short test video , recorded on Note 9 with hevc option enabled was playable in both native gallery app and MXplayer.

Both players seemed to confirm hevc encoding

 

[koragg97]

I haven't used this feature but tried to answer your question on my Eyxnos Note 9

It seems to have the option to select hevc in video recording settings of standard camera app.

A short test video , recorded on Note 9 with hevc option enabled was playable in both native gallery app and MXplayer.

Both players seemed to confirm hevc encoding

I mainly would watch series in HEVC but if it plays recorded HEVC from the camera I don't see a reason not to play movies etc. Thanks for confirming

 

[bober10113]

isint hevc just the encoding for the file container?

logically anything that has H.265 support can play it( which all modern players should be able to play/read)

btw file extensions(container) are almost meaningless eg: mkv, mv4,mp4 and dosent regulate if the actualy decoding is possible or not. they are just a name that allows the correct app to start and open the file. the header in the file probably is the important part.