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Chaosrider

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I use three video players, for different purposes. Windows 10 PC, fully up to date:

Photos
Movies & TV
VLC

The 4K vids that I get from my Mini-2s will play on all of them just fine.

However, the 4K vids from the DJI FPV aircraft will *ONLY* play using VLC. Both "Photos" and "Videos and TV" want me to get the "HEVC video extensions". Photos wants me to pay a buck for it.

Anybody have any idea what's up with that?

Thx
 
Had to pay that same $1 cash for the Codec , , although you could find it, you risk a ton of nonsense coming with it. Using Windows 11

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Microsoft did not include the codec in Windows 10, therefore it must be downloaded and some require payment.
OK, that's weird, but it makes sense.

So HEVC is a real thing, and not some private Trojan?

I don't mind spending the buck; I'd just never seen this happen before, and I didn't want to buy an infection.

I'm new to anything beyond "click it and watch it" when it comes to video. I just assumed that MP4 was MP4.

Thx!
 
Until today, I was using the H.264 video codec setting for recording, simply because I assumed that my ~12-year-old machine wouldn't be able to handle the newer codec.

So, I tried playing back the video recorded with the new(er) H.265 codec, & sure enough, I got an error popup that indicated I needed to go to the MS store, pay a buck, & download the required codec.

Me being the contrary rebel type, not to mention, tighter than a clam's @$$ in the wintertime, I was sure that there was a workaround rather than paying Bill Gates, already quite a bit richer than I am, for something that already should have been included in my Win10x64 updates.

I found a free source for the new(er) H.265 codec: Free H.265 codec

I read that there was the potential for playback errors in old(er) hardware due to the newer codec relying much more heavily on the hardware for decoding.

So far, my 1st-gen Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz & more recent but still obsolete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti video card seems to now play the H.265 video with no hiccups at all.

Mind you, I was recording in the 1080 @ 25fps mode. Later, I'll try the higher resolution & faster fps modes.
 
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