HEVC (H.265) playback possible?

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by bigbill

Cool, I will try that when we get back on the road in January.

I just reread the manual and it doesn't mention anything about long presses for the Options Wheel, only for the volume button. Is there a write up somewhere about other remote options not listed in the manual? I have used the right and left to skip forward and back, even figured out how to change the amount of skip. But it never seemed like i was getting a page down event when holding the button all the way down even for a long time.

Thanks!! -Bill

I believe the long press is a function of the sagetv miniclient, not the remote.

[davidk21770]

I can't get SageTV to not use its inbuilt demux. I've searched my registry and changed all occurrences of EnableSageTVStreamDemux to 0.

When I build a graph with an mkv/vp9 or mkv/vp8 video, graphstudio uses lav demux, sage just gives me a playback error.

I can play mkv's with h.264 in sage but it does not use lav's demux (no activity icon in the lower right -- but the activity icons for lav video and audio codecs are there).

Any suggestions on things to try?

I'm running windows 8.1 and the latest SageTV for windows (9.1.8.770).

Edit...
I looked over the log file and the only splitter mentioned in it when it is creating or removing a graph is the sage splitter -- even when I open mkv/h.264 files (which do play).

[jchiso]

I've managed to get this working on several servers and clients by changing the registry item for EnableSageTVStreamDemux to 0, but on one pesky server (Windows 8 Pro 64-bit) does not seem to respond to the change. The registry had at least four references to EnableSageTVStreamDemux, but I changed them all to 0.

Is there another culprit that could be preventing hevc playback within Sage? The files play as expected on WPC-HC, Kodi, and VLC.

[Telecore]

Playback of HEVC-10 encoded MKV's, encoded with Handbrake from TV recordings and discs works for me with the miniclient both on the Nvidia Shield and the FireTV 4K. I did nothing special, no registry changes/etc. to make this work, it just does.

[jchiso]

I should have been more clear; I'm trying to achieve playback on a Windows 8 system. All of the other Windows systems (v10, v8 Home 32-bit, v8 Home 64-bit) work fine after changing the registry setting ...

[jughead]

Originally Posted by jchiso

I should have been more clear; I'm trying to achieve playback on a Windows 8 system. All of the other Windows systems (v10, v8 Home 32-bit, v8 Home 64-bit) work fine after changing the registry setting ...

Hmm, I have no idea if Win 8 treats the registry differently. Only suggestion I can think of is to check the registry again for any you missed and to make sure they all stayed 0 and did not revert back to 1. Make sure Sage is closed and the service is stopped.

I was having an issue playing HEVC files a few weeks ago after doing some updates and my issue was Lav filters didn't register themselves properly after the install. A reinstall of Lav filters solved it. Maybe try that in case Lav Splitter is not working correctly?

What error/behavior do you see? Same as if you hadn't made any changes?

edit: does the lav splitter icon pop up? make sure the icon is enabled in the Lav Splitter settings

[Zogg]

I finally got this to work on my Intel NUC (Skylake). I was running LAV v0.70.2 and couldn't get HEVC H.265 files to play, so I upgraded to the latest LAV v0.74.1 and all my videos play great now.

I did enable H/W decoding using D3D11 but not sure if that was required or not.

[jchiso]

For the life of me, I cannot get this to work on this Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit system. I already had the latest LAV filters installed, but I uninstalled, and reinstalled. I checked all registry references to the SageTVStreamDemux; they are still set to "0".

I still get the Playback Error dialog.

I'm using an nVidia GT 1030 card with 431.60 Game-Ready drivers ...

[Zogg]

Originally Posted by jchiso

For the life of me, I cannot get this to work on this Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit system. I already had the latest LAV filters installed, but I uninstalled, and reinstalled. I checked all registry references to the SageTVStreamDemux; they are still set to "0".

I still get the Playback Error dialog.

I'm using an nVidia GT 1030 card with 431.60 Game-Ready drivers ...

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I went into LAV Video Configuration and picked a hardware decoder that had HEVC checked (not grayed out). You might take a look at that.

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by Zogg

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I went into LAV Video Configuration and picked a hardware decoder that had HEVC checked (not grayed out). You might take a look at that.

Unfortunately for me, the NVIDIA CUVID option I selected had HEVC checked, and not greyed out ...