Try this: Go to the following in Firefox:
https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h265 Click Download on the first one - you will get the codec error If your CPU is Kaby Lake, try that on Chrome. If not, do it from the Debian-compiled Chromium off the link I posted and it will work. Youtube is probably looking at the browser header and transcoding the video on the fly to something other than H.265 Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 4:40 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Cc: Portland Linux/Unix Group <p...@pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC "Like I said the only option for Firefox, apparently, is downloading the H.265 video, transcoding it to H.264 via Ffmpeg, then viewing it in Firefox." I'm running Linux debian 4.19.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.260-1 (2022-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux with Firefox 102.5.Oesr and I can play this HEVC H.265 Youtube test video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2bL--exAM
