5 Free HEVC Player Software to Play HEVC Videos

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5 Free HEVC Player Software to Play HEVC Videos

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  ayer-software-to-play-hevc-videos.html

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• "Is there any HEVC Player that can play HEVC
  videos smoothly? Ive got some HEVC videos, but
  the current video player couldnt play HEVC
  video. Im wondering if there is any HEVC media
  player that could recognize and play HEVC video."
• With the H.264 being a common standard in video
  compression, there comes an even higher standard.
  Thats H.265, also known as HEVC (short for High
  Efficiency Video Coding). The H.265 provides even
  better video compression than H.264, offering the
  same file size but in higher compression rate.
  However, being a new video compression standard,
  currently not all media players could play
  HEVC/H.265 videos. You need to get a professional
  HEVC video player to play and watch HEVC video
  files. In this post, you will learn how to play
  HEVC videos in different ways.
• Part 1 What is HEVC/H.265?
• Part 2 How to Play HEVC/H.265 Video
• Part 3 5 Free HEVC Player Software

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Part 1 What is HEVC/H.265?

• HEVC, short for High Efficiency Video Coding,
  also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video
  compression standard, one of several potential
  successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or
  MPEG-4 Part 10). In comparison to AVC, HEVC
  offers about double the data compression ratio at
  the same level of video quality, or substantially
  improved video quality at the same bit rate. It
  supports resolutions up to 81924320, including
  8K UHD.

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• The idea of HEVC is to offer the same level of
  picture quality as AVC, but with better
  compression, so theres less data to deal with.
  This is key if we want 4K/Ultra HD broadcasts
  (including satellite), 4K Blu-rays, and more.
• High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC, or H.265) is
  the latest video compression standard developed
  by the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG),
  finalized in 2013. HEVC is able to compress video
  up to twice as efficiently as AVC, letting you
  encode a video in a file that is about half the
  size of AVC at the same quality level. The higher
  compression efficiency also means that for a
  given bit rate or file size, HEVC encodes video
  with significantly higher quality than AVC.
• The higher compression efficiency of HEVC will
  enable efficient recording and distribution of
  Ultra High Definition (UHD, 4K, 2160P) video.
  While UHD has four times as many pixels per frame
  (3840 x 2160) as HD video (1920 x 1080), HEVC
  will enable UHD to be encoded with reasonable bit
  rates (roughly twice the bits per second required
  for good HD video today, instead of 4x the bit
  rate). While HEVC is essential for efficient
  storage and distribution of Ultra High Definition
  video, it provides the same benefit at smaller
  video picture sizes (High Definition, Standard
  Definition, etc.). There is no need to wait
  anymore. HEVC is ready now, and the x265 HEVC
  Upgrade will let you take full advantage of the
  benefits of HEVC.

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Part 2 How to Play HEVC Video

• Solution 1 Get H.265 Video Codec Pack
• Download and install an H.265 video codec pack on
  your computer to turn your media player into an
  HEVC media player. You could get multiple choices
  online, like x265 Upgrade, DivX HEVC, K-Lite Mega
  Codec Pack, etc.

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• Solution 2 Use 3rd-party HEVC player software
• Install 3rd-party HEVC/H.265 meida player is
  without doubt a wonderful and time-saving
  solution. Generally speaking, 3rd-party
  HEVC/H.265 video player could recognize and play
  videos with all codecs, just like Leawo Free
  H.265 Player.

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• Solution 3 Use HEVC decoder
• Also, you could use HEVC/H.265 video decoder to
  decode H.265 video and save in other friendly
  video codecs that are accepted by your computer
  media player. An HEVC/H.265 video decoder could
  let you enjoy HEVC/H.265 videos on any media
  player and portable device, just like Leawo H.265
  Video Decoder.

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Part 3 5 Free HEVC Player Software

• 1. Leawo Free Blu-ray Player
• Leawo Free Blu-ray Player is the best free H.265
  player software for you to view H.265 videos on
  your computer. It supports to play media files in
  multiple video codecs like H.264, H.265, MPEG-4,
  etc. It is also free region-free Blu-ray disc
  player, free 4K video player, free audio player,
  free ISO player, etc.

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Leawo Free Blu-ray Player Video Demo
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• 2. VLC Media Player
• VLC is a free and open-source media player
  developed by VideoLAN. It has been famous
  especially among Americans for many years. It can
  play many codecs without the need of codec packs.
  But for playing an HEVC format video, it requires
  to download a specific x265 as a free software
  library and application for encoding video
  streams into the H.265/MPEG-H HEVC compression
  format. But if you click the "Download x265"
  button on that page, a landing page of "400
  Couldnt parse URL" would appear and you will
  fail in downloading the H.265 encoder for VLC.

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• 3. Media Player Lite
• Media Player Lite is multifunctional media player
  that supports over 300 audio and video formats
  (FLV, MKV, VOB, MPG, WM, FLAC) and allows to play
  media files really comfortable. App includes such
  useful functions as playing content from
  SoundCloud and YouTube, creating/editing
  playlists sleep timer and much more. Also Media
  Player Lite allows to get more features with
  in-app purchase like additional audio/video
  codecs, watching videos from DVDs, equalizer.

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• 4. Potplayer
• Potplayer also serves as a free HEVC player for
  HEVC/H.265 encoded videos playing as well as any
  other multimedia formats or codecs like H.264,
  MP4, FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV etc. Besides, other than
  the powerful ability of playing HEVC codec
  videos, you can also download 3D and blu-ray
  movies/videos for playing on this marvelous video
  player, which makes it unique among the best HEVC
  players. But sadly its only available on
  Windows.

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• 5. 5KPlayer
• 5KPlayer is a sophisticated free HEVC player as
  well as a 4K video player, to some extent, which
  delivers high quality playback of 4K/5K/8K,
  H.265, MP4, MKV, AVI and even DVD, 360 degree
  video playback on Mac or Windows. Besides the
  ability to play HEVC UHD videos, it also features
  various other abilities like playing music in
  AAC, MP3, FLAC etc and organizing video music
  files easily.

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