Written by Have thought of converting your H.265 files to VLC on Mac without losing the high-quality? Trying to find an easy-to-use H.265 Encoder? Or need to find out the solutions about the issues of playing HEVC files on VLC player? If so, in this article, we will introduce a powerful H.265 Converter – iMedia Converter for Mac and show you detailed guide on how to convert high-quality videos as HEVC/H.265 files to VLC via Mac, iMac, MacPro, Macbook you will get a clear idea.
In near future, HEVC will be used by almost every content. It is a matter of decision for service whether to send data using HEVC/H.265 instead of MPEG-4/H.264. Searching online and I got some tech support. Although it is claimed latest version of VLC (2.2.0) should enable both HEV1 and HEV2 formats of HEVC, viewing H.265/HEVC files in VLC is not so easy as we image. As the problems I occurred, the latest VLC media player (2.2.0) still does not support H.265 video playback perfectly: there is stutters, not showing audio, etc issues.
There are multiple H.265/HEVC video converters like MediaCoder, FFmpeg, etc. with powerful function. Today, I will show you the solution to play H.265/HEVC files on VLC on Mac flawlessly is adopting iMedia Converter for Mac – Which supports import HEVC files and convert to the video format that you need, such as AVI, WMV, RMVB, MOV, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, VOB, etc. You can also convert HEVC files to specific video format for using in video editing software or convert HEVC files to MP4 for playing on portable devices like smartphones and tablets (iPhone, iPad, Galaxy S6/Note 4, etc. )
Hot News for all Mac users! Pavtube Studio has launched a user-requested upgrade for all its Mac BD/DVD and package tools: DVDAid for Mac, BDMagic for Mac, ByteCopy for Mac, iMedia Converter for Mac to version 4.8.5.1, which focuses on the addition of the H.265 encoders and decoders.
New features of iMedia Converter for Mac v4.8.5.1:
1. Supported to encode H.265/HEVC codec
2. Optimize coding parameters
3. Fix some bugs
Hot News!!! For Windows >> Pavtube Software has been updated to Version 4.9.0.0 for All Windows 10/8.1/8 users to support newest NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP technology in video decoding to improve performance and ensure users much faster conversion speed than ever before when coping/ripping/converting DVD/Blu-ray, since more CPU resources are spared because of NVIDIA CUDA’s harnessing the power of GPU and AMD APP’s co-using of GPU and CPU.
What’s New
- New version: v4.9.0.0 (12.20 2016 )
- Support newest NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP technology to accelerate video encoding/decoding by both H.264 and H.265/HEVC codec.Note: H.265 CUDA depends on whether your computer is geared up with H.265 encoding capable graphics card. Please refer to the document on official website of nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
- Further added support for latest Blu-ray MKB v62
- Improved handling for location seeking issues on BD and some VOB files
How to Encode HEVC/H.265 files on VLC on Mac, iMac, MacPro, Macbook?
Pavtube is one of the firsts to provide an H.265 encoder for Windows and Mac. Refer to the windows workaround. Download and try it now! Here we take encoding H.265 for example and show you the easy steps.
Step 1. Load H.265 Videos
Launch the best H.265 Video Converter; click “Add Video” and load your H.265/HEVC files. Or directly drag and drip your H.265 source to the program. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at a time.
Step 2. Choose output format
Click “Format” > “Common Video” and choose MKV or MP4 as the output format, or click “Format” > “HD Video” and choose “MKV HD Video(*.mkv)” or “H.264 HD Video(*mp4)” as the output format. And set the output saving folder by clicking “Output” and choose a folder to save the decoded files.
Step 3. Set profile parameters.
Click “Settings” to open the profile settings window, your can choose or adjust the parameters such as video codec, size, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, sample rate, bit rate and channels according. In the Task Information section, you can compare the detained information of the source video and the target video.
Step 4. Start Conversion
You can preview to check the final result. Once you are happy with it, click the “Convert” button to start converting H.265/HEVC files to VLC best supported format. It will take you a little while. When the conversion is done, you can click ”Open” to get your generated files. And streaming the converted files for VLC.
In addition, this H.265 Converter for Windows or Mac is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size the users want. Just take a try! After read this guide and you can play H.265/HEVC files on VLC on Mac without any problems.
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