I have a Lenovo Win11 laptop with Ryzen 7535U CPU. “HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer” were installed by Lenovo out of the box. The AMD driver is up to date. As is Jami.
H265 does not appear in the list of available Video codecs. What do I miss?
According to the internet this CPU has the necessary hardware support. I booted the machine into Fedora and there Jami lets me select the H265 codec. That’s why I don’t think that it is a hardware problem.
I think I figured out where my problem comes from. I overlooked a line at the top of the Windows
Store page that says that “HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer” is not supported on my device. It was installed, but not working.
I am not sure how to proceed from here. As mentioned in the first post, the CPU can support it. A search on the Internet brings up all kind of ways to install the H265 codec on Windows. I tried a few libraries. They do not enable support in Jami and are probably made for video players. There are also the “HEVC Video Extensions” on the Windows store. But they cost money and I am not sure if they would solve the issue.
I never tried it, but found that there is an open source libde265 HEVC codec. Maybe have a look there: https://www.libde265.org/ Not sure that this will enable H265 in Jami you might have to try.
Yep, a venerable Zotac GTX 1660 that I flashed for free as a MSI 1660 Super and that works A+++ since many years (nasty nasty Nvidia market segmentation…). A perfect cheap H.265 card for Jami. I will not advice anybody to do that because you can risk killing your GPU if not done properly (in that case you can still use your GPU to turn the eggs in a frying pan…).