DivX now has HEVC-H.265 for Mac...

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David M Brewer Author

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DivX now has HEVC-H.265 for Mac...

I found this yesterday....

http://www.divx.com/en/software/hevc-plugin

Here's a YouTube tutorial video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyIkoGMtNU

It used all of my cores... A 10 minutes 1080p will take about 10 minutes to encode. Setting a 1080p to encode at 4000 kbps, the quality is amazing. (A 1080p video should be set at the default 8150 kbps.) Small videos sizes (720p) encode very fast (almost real time). Encoding a DVD (2 hours) to h.265 might fit on a CD. You can also use the VLC player to playback the videos if you wish too.

I'm amazed so far!!!

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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 27" 3.4GHz Quad-Core i7-SSD-2 GB HD

Posted on Dec 3, 2013 12:58 PM

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Russ H

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Dec 3, 2013 3:40 PM in response to David M Brewer

Thank you, David. Very much looking forward to testing it. Real time HD encoding with amazing quality sounds prettty good to me.

Russ

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babowa

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Dec 19, 2013 6:07 PM in response to David M Brewer

Never having used this software, so what would be the settings to encode to be able to burn to DVD (using either Roxio Toast, iDVD, or whatever)? (I know you don't like DVDs, but I do....)

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David M Brewer Author

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Dec 19, 2013 7:07 PM in response to babowa

Toast and iDVD doesn't support h.265. There isn't a disc player that could play it... anyway.

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babowa

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Dec 19, 2013 8:47 PM in response to David M Brewer

Okay, thanks - so much for that.....

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David M Brewer Author

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Jan 9, 2014 12:13 AM in response to David M Brewer

There is an update to this encoder... you can now encode up to 4K in h.265...

http://www.divx.com/en/software/hevc-plugin

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Uninexus

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Feb 1, 2014 2:11 PM in response to David M Brewer

It craps out every time. I tried to compile several different movies with HEVC 1080p setting on two different Macs and I get error "2" (unknown exception) every single time. Tried a variety of formats. I think the only one that worked was a short H.264 clip I shot on my Panasonic GH3. Everyone of the other one fails to compile.

I am more than willing to work with the developers to try to find a solution - but why should I ? It's not ready for prime time.

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