H.265 videos

Discover HEVC playback capabilities of your browser

Profile Resolution FPS Codec example Supported Supported via MSE*
Main 1K (1280×720) 30 hvc1.1.6.L93.B0 ? ?
Main 2K (1920×1080) 30 hvc1.1.6.L120.80 ? ?
Main 4K (3840×2160) 30 hvc1.1.6.L150.90 ? ?
Main 4K (3840×2160) 60 hvc1.1.6.L153.90 ? ?
Main 8K (7680×4320) 30 hvc1.1.6.L180.90 ? ?
Main 10 2K (1920×1080) 30 hvc1.2.4.L120.90 ? ?
Main 10 4K (3840×2160) 60 hvc1.2.4.L153.90 ? ?
Rext 4K (3840×2160) 30 hvc1.4.10.L150.9C ? ?
Dolby Vision 5 4K (3840×2160) 24 dvhe.05.06 ? ?

* MSE support is required to play streaming media, primarily on desktops and tablets.

Hardware support

Intel (Bluesky)
Intel (manufacturer)
AMD (Bluesky)
AMD (manufacturer)
NVIDIA (Bluesky)
NVIDIA (manufacturer)

Google Chrome

Graphics (hardware) acceleration should be turned on in browser settings chrome://settings/system
Open chrome://gpu in order to checkout video decoding capabilities.

Safari

Available on all Apple devices, starting from MAC OS High Sierra (version 10.13) or IOS 11.
Using HEVC media on Apple devices

Microsoft Edge

Depends on Windows Media Foundation. The following OS components should be installed:
– Media Feature Pack
– HEVC Video Extensions from Microsoft Store
Open edge://gpu in order to checkout video decoding capabilities.

Mozilla Firefox

Same as Microsoft Edge. In addition, two flags have to be set on about:config page:
media.wmf.enabled   media.wmf.hevc.enabled
These flags are set by default in latest builds. Open about:support in order to checkout available media codecs.