H.265 (also known as HEVC or H265) is a modern and efficient video codec capable of high-efficiency video compression. Due to licensing requirements, its availability in browsers is limited, but support is improving.

🎉 Chrome Now Supports H.265 Natively!

Great news! Starting from Chrome version 136 and above, H.265/HEVC is now supported natively for WebRTC without requiring any flags or special configuration.

Platform requirements:

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Supported Codecs

Important Compatibility Notice

While H.265/HEVC offers excellent compression efficiency, there are some important considerations:

VDO.Ninja handles this gracefully by automatically falling back to other codecs if H.265 negotiation fails. You can specify a codec preference order using the codec parameter in your viewer link:

Example: &codec=h265,av1,h264,vp8

This tells VDO.Ninja to try codecs in order: first H.265, then AV1, then H.264, and finally VP8, ensuring the best available codec is used for each connection.