VLC does not support the audio or video format "hevc"

Question

I'm trying to run an .mkv video, I even installed the codecs from this page: How to install all existing media codecs?

But still keep getting this error on VLC player:

No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "hevc". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

It plays only the audio.

Help please?

Which version of vlc are you using?It sould automatically work if you are using 2.1.2 — Mohit Rajan, Mar 10 '16 at 03:06

Kalamalka Kid · Answer 1 · 2017-04-21T22:43:53.730

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There is a VLC plugin available for HEVC playaback. To play H.265/HEVC videos with VLC player in Ubuntu OS we need to install vlc-plugin-libde265 module.

Use following commands to install vlc-plugin-libde265

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265

Details can be found here: GStreamer plugin for 4K H.265/HEVC video streaming

more info on numerous distros can be found HERE

edited Apr 21 '17 at 22:43

answered Mar 10 '16 at 03:21

Kalamalka Kid

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Unable to locate package vlc-plugin-libde265 – Rafael Mar 06 '17 at 11:04
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@workflow Thank you. I edited answer to include repository & update commands. – Kalamalka Kid Apr 21 '17 at 22:44

VLC does not support the audio or video format "hevc"

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