You can also “enable 3D Settings” to add 3D effect to your source media. If necessary, you can click “Settings” button to modify video and audio parameters like encoder, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, aspect ratio, sample rate, and audio channels. If not, simply choose 1080p h.264 mp4 as target as we stated above. If your computer supports 4K resolution and can handle 4K H.264 video well, then we would recommend selecting “4K H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4)” as target format under ‘4K Video’ column. If your computer only supports 1080p, we would recommend choosing “HD H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4)” as target format under ‘HD Video’ column. Step 2: Click “Profile” to select output format Step 1: Click “Add File” to load source HEVC video files into this program. To transcode high bitrate HEVC for playing via VLC on Windows, follow these steps: Part 2: How to create playable files for VLC from high bitrate HEVC sources on Mac? Part 1: How to create playable files for VLC from high bitrate HEVC sources on Windows? There is a full-featured “Video Converter” that is able to encode high bitrate HEVC H.265 files to VLC acceptable H.264 files (Actually, it also supports exporting HEVC files up to 4k resolution). Fortunately, there is an alternative way to work this out, if the previous method didn’t work. It’s high bitrate HEVC so that’s realistically expected. This will solve most HEVC playback issues, but not for high bitrate HEVC files.

This issue can be resolved by installing VLC 2.2.0 or higher versions and upgrading to the most recent macOS High Sierra or Windows 10. There have been lots of users reporting laggy or artifacts issues playing HEVC files through VLC on their machines.

How can I solve the issue? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) running macOS High Sierra. It tried to play, but did not play nice, just got a couple of still images or numerous artifacts. “Hello all, VLC has problems with any 60Mbps HEVC file I’ve tried. In this post, we explain a workaround to fix VLC high bitrate HEVC video playback issues.Īrtifacts issues playing high bitrate HEVC files in VLC on MacBook Pro How do you play high bitrate HEVC files via VLC mac version? As for HEVC, since it’s a pretty new high efficiency video codec, it requires much more processor, especially high bitrate HEVC. Depending on your computer hardware, source media types/specs, and VLC versions, video playback on VLC player will definitely have different performances. Cannot play high bitrate HEVC files in VLC media player smoothly? This problem is common in both Windows and Mac platforms.

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