H.265/HEVC Status
H.265/HEVC is currently not supported in your browser
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 there are ways to enable and use it.
H.265/HEVC is currently not supported in your browser
VP8
H264
AV1
VP9
H.265/HEVC support varies by browser:
--enable-features=PlatformHEVCEncoderSupport,WebRtcAllowH265Receive,WebRtcAllowH265Send --force-fieldtrials=WebRTC-Video-H26xPacketBuffer/Enabled
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-features=PlatformHEVCEncoderSupport,WebRtcAllowH265Receive,WebRtcAllowH265Send --force-fieldtrials=WebRTC-Video-H26xPacketBuffer/Enabled
cd "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application"
chrome.exe --enable-features=PlatformHEVCEncoderSupport,WebRtcAllowH265Receive,WebRtcAllowH265Send --force-fieldtrials=WebRTC-Video-H26xPacketBuffer/Enabled
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.