h.265 video to smart tv

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I have a some video files they are encoded with the H.265 codec they wont play on my 1080p lg tv bought in 2013.

I could encode them to h.264 but your talking over a hour to do one 45 min vid ,also tried using the plex encoder on my nas to stream them on the fly no chance my micro server says no poor thing cant handle it.

can these new fangled 4k tv's decode this content as standard ? anyone tried on there 4k tvs?. bit of noob when it comes to latest tv standards and video codecs so any advice would be great.

thanks.

 

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okay thanks been using Any video converter to convert them to H.264, handbrake works too but avc has more pre loaded options one specific for LG tvs think I can que them over night and do it like that with AVC.

edit :

found a free workaround use a laptop right click on h.265 file and cast to device going through my wd tv live box seems to work better than going straight to the tv

tried this using vlc player on a android phone and tablet but to much pixelation going on my, i5 asus laptop is hitting 99% cpu usage doing this, now this makes me wonder how can these cheap 35 quid android TV boxes that claim to be h.265 compatible that are on the bay / rainforest do this ?

 

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Hardware assistance for h265 genuinely exists on the Android boxes (although they are not qualified/secure to provide netflix access so not that useful imhop) so they can decode h265 with minimal power consumption versus the Intel integrated graphics for which you need a Skylake 6th gen cpu to get same capability as opposed to 99% cpu use with a software decode on earlier intel cpu.

(batch transcoding your h265 to h264 will give a loss of quality - presumably you could not get original source for these mpeg2 ?)

afraid not just have the 265 files I'm going to give one of these android boxes a try . casting from the laptop is a pain connection drops for some reason also it can't do 1080p.