For apps that are now Universal, you need to indicate under requirements that they are universal, because there are users that may want to run native-ARM apps, if available (and if you own an ARM mac, why wouldn't you want to run native apps if available?). x265 is a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.265/MPEG-H HEVC compression format, and is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Maybe that means separate MU pages for each platform in the case of VLC, or you need to host both versions and offer the user a choice which file when downloading. So come up with a system to handle this new world we live in, every day that goes by it only will get more confusing. VLC is the first app I've seen that comes as separate installers, but logical to think more will come, for whatever reason a Universal app is not available (technical reasons, licensing, size of the executable, who knows). Step 4 Now, the Stream Output dialog box would open, check the Play Locally box and click Stream to proceed to provide the. Now, it ranks next to VLC on Softonic with most downloads, thanks to its ease of use and high quality. 5KPlayer is another great media player software that is updated constantly with an extensive video/audio codec support list, supporting even 8K, 5K and 4K UHD videos.
Step 3 Click on the Stream button and then choose Settings. See how to troubelshoot MKV VLC playback problem > No.3 5KPlayer. Step 2 Click on the Add button and choose the file you want to stream.
There a many Universal apps now, but if you look at the MAc Update page for them, there is no indication that they are Universal and requirements still say Intel-64. Step 1 Download and install VLC Media Player first, launch it, and click on Media>Open File. As I"ve been telling MU for several months you need to come up with a system/policy for how to document and catalog Universal and/or ARM only apps. The download you are hosting currently as of this date is the ARM version. VLC is now available in separate Intel and ARM (Apple Silicon) versions, with DIFFERENT versioning schemes. You should now be able to play any file encoded in HEVC with VLC.MACUPDATE please read. Once vlc-plugin-libde265 is installed, restart VLC and reopen the file. Sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265 In order to play videos encoded in H265/HEVC with VLC on Ubuntu, you need to install vlc-plugin-libde265 and it is easily done with the following commands from a terminal: It also supports resolutions up to 8192×4320, including 8K UHD. HEVC stands for “ High Efficiency Video Coding“ and it is a video compression standard developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding it offers about double the data compression ratio at the same level of video quality (or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate) of the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10). VLC is a popular, portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project that, as main strength, includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries to avoid (except in this case) the need to install and configure them manually. That obviously means that VLC doesn’t have the right codec to play H265/HEVC videos. VLC is a multimedia player so versatile that it can virtually open any multimedia file available … but, as you may guess, that “virtually” actually imply that there IS a limit.įor example if you try to play a video encoded in HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) with VLC on Ubuntu, you will get the following error: