Chromecast with Google Tv: HEVC H.265 support.

by Bschill32

I have tried multiple apps: kodi, vlc, mx player but H.265 either stutters or crashes the app. Any insight on wether the new Google Tv supports HEVC? Or which codecs it does support?

SOLUTION: So turns out in kodi I had audio passthrough enabled and DTS was enabled. Which I had to disable. It was causing my issues. Out of luck it seems I was streaming all DTS audio files. Dolby digital and dolby digital plus files work fine with audio passthrough. But not DTS. Hopefully this helps others. H.265 4k works just fine now.

jwort93

Yes it supports HEVC, that’s what 99% of streaming services encode their 4K video in. What is the bitrate of the file you are trying to play? Is you Chromecast connected to WiFi, or are you using an Ethernet adapter?

titooo7

I had the same issue yesterday with a 4k h265 file. Immediately after I opened the same file in Plex (direct play, no transcoding) and no issues

check_mate12813

Try airflow. Works seamlessly.

tb21666

*Whether & no issues are present on any of my remuxed content, which is quite larger than 17GB per file in most instances.

magnetik79

I've had no trouble with H.265 sources - the major reason I've upgraded from a ChromeCast 2 to the new edition. Was going to get the Ultra - but this new edition was just around the corner.

I tested this with the following:

  • Raspberry Pi 4 running minidlna as a DLNA server.
  • VLC app on Google TV/Chromechast

Plays h.265 content perfectly. And both the CC/Raspberry Pi 4 are on WiFi too!

Bschill32

Huh..... I'm streaming via kodi. I have a firestick that streams them no issue. But can't get them to work on the chromecast.

BetterOffCamping

i found this in search of an answer to the same question, but it didn't help. With further experimentation, I realized I can install VLC on my Chromecast for TV. Once I did this, my H.265/Atmos videos played without hiccup.

I am writing this here for future desperate searchers. I was trying to use VLC on my Pixel 6 to cast video from my Synology DLNA media server. The television is a 2013 model LG, so it does not handle the newer standards.

I still need to figure out why the video transformation feature of the NAS isn't doing what I expected, which was to transcode to a format the TV could understand.

KalAsther

Can you guys try playing your hevc files on its browser? Google Chrome perhaps? I wanna know if google tv, just like windows, or samsung tvs, boosts its built in browsers with the same video codecs too.

Edge plays all video codecs if you upgrade your windows installed codecs. Samsung TVs tizen browser also plays the same 4k files or what not. I wanna know if chromecast w/google tv does the same with its built in browser too.

Andrea332

Support this VLC Bug Report: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/2213