For How to for others who read this post and wonder why it doesn't work. Here is the commands to get vlc to be able to play x265/hevc.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-libde265

Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/105587/how-to-update-vlc-to-the-latest-version

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