[IDEA] HEVC/.265 on Xbian

[mk01]

@syco

-alsa version of xbmc "should" be able to play such files. "should" means to open them and decode technically, no idea what the poor Broadcom SOC can handle to decode in realtime.

the "RPI native" XBMC (playing via OMXPLAYER) can play only formats whose GPU can HW decode. it doesn't contain any code to handle SW decoding. despite -alsa version where XBMC's native players are able to use OMX lib hw decoding but they also natively fallback to SW (via FFMPEG).

(-alsa is also the only possibility how to play old divx3 content and probably others - sometimes the RPI SOC is enough for low-res videos - for instance my Red Dwarf collection in divx3 with resolution not higher than 320x200 - but hi res or not, it's still funny ) )

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just tried some x265 demos in xbmc (macosx) and it looks like 13.2 doesn't support 265 at all.

@menakite
do you know if 14 supports that ?