[SOLVED] Playing H265 video - hardware or software problem?

[Dimitri001]

Whenever I try to play H265 video it's very choppy and makes the video player become unresponsive. I'm wondering is it that my video card can't handle it (GeForce GT 710) or is there some codec that I don't have and need to install?

I'm running Win10 and I use VLC to play video.

 

[rgd1101]

full system spec? include brand and model of the psu

 

[Dimitri001]

Athlon II X2 250 3 Ghz
8 GB DDR3

I don't know MB or PSU.

 

[rgd1101]

software or hardware?
hardware

 

[Herr B]

do you have a graphics card installed? Resolution of the video to be played? H265 is very processing expensive because of strong compression

 

[Dimitri001]

do you have a graphics card installed? Resolution of the video to be played? H265 is very processing expensive because of strong compression

Yes, a GeForce GT 710. The resolution is 1080p.

 

[Herr B]

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

Apparently you gpu does not support nvec decoding so your cpu is doing all the workload.

 

[Dimitri001]

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

Apparently you gpu does not support nvec decoding so your cpu is doing all the workload.

Is there anything I can try or is it definitely a no go with the hardware I have?

 

[Herr B]

Why not use a different codec such as h264?

 

[Dimitri001]

Yeah, if there's nothing I can do, short of hardware upgrade, I'll go with h264.

 

[Herr B]

Depends on what you are doing. H265 has a higher compression and thus videos take less space on disk. Its optimized for streaming video over web on lower bandwidths.
They won't look better or anything. It really just ment for this purpose