Hi there,
I’ve been trying to get any Chromium based browser to work with HEVC/265 and am not having any luck. I’ve followed the fusion instructions to no avail.
I am able to use both VLC and Dragon to play an HEVC video, but all Chromium based browsers give the same error:
Warning, FFmpegDemuxer failed to create a valid/supported video decoder configuration from muxed stream, config:codec: hevc, profile: hevc main, level: not available, alpha_mode: is_opaque, coded size: [3840,2160], visible rect: [0,0,3840,2160], natural size: [3840,2160], has extra data: true, encryption scheme: Unencrypted, rotation: 0°, flipped: 0, color space: {primaries:BT709, transfer:BT709, matrix:BT709, range:LIMITED}
and yet ffplay will happily play the file.
ffprobe:
ffprobe version 7.1 Copyright (c) 2007-2024 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 14 (GCC)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --optflags='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Wno-complain-wrong-lang -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -mtls-dialect=gnu2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 ' --extra-cflags=' -I/usr/include/rav1e' --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-version3 --enable-bzlib --enable-chromaprint --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gcrypt --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-lcms2 --enable-libaom --enable-libaribb24 --enable-libaribcaption --enable-libdav1d --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcodec2 --enable-libcdio --enable-libdrm --enable-libjack --enable-libjxl --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgsm --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libilbc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-nvenc --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libplacebo --enable-librsvg --enable-librav1e --enable-librubberband --enable-libqrencode --enable-libsmbclient --enable-version3 --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-version3 --enable-vapoursynth --enable-libvpx --enable-vulkan --enable-libshaderc --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-lv2 --enable-avfilter --enable-libmodplug --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-lto --enable-libvpl --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
libavcodec 61. 19.100 / 61. 19.100
libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100
libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100
libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100
libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100
libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100
libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/xxx/Downloads/hevc_4k30P_main_3.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : iso4
minor_version : 1
compatible_brands: iso4hvc1
creation_time : 2013-12-02T09:56:57.000000Z
Duration: 00:00:10.00, start: 0.100000, bitrate: 12292 kb/s
Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: hevc (Main) (hvc1 / 0x31637668), yuv420p(tv), 3840x2160, 12289 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2013-12-02T09:56:57.000000Z
handler_name : hevc:FMT=HEVC@GPAC0.5.1-DEV-rev4841
vendor_id : [0][0][0][0]
I’m probably not allowed to post links, but the sample files on x265 dot com do not work for me in the browser.
I have tried:
- Flags on the Arch wiki
- Flatpak / non flatpak browsers
- Chromium/Brave/Chrome
- X11/Wayland
- RPM Fusion
I’m a little lost at what to try next. The core specs are:
- Fedora KDE 41
- Nvidia 4080 Super (565 driver)
- AMD 5950x
I’m not trying to do anything too special and all the test files are copyright free so I’d love to see if anyone else is able to play them.
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