SOLVED: Google Chrome Won't Play HEVC Video

[Winthryth]

There doesn't appear to be a way to explicitly exclude HEVC playback.

Try this, only for testing.

Type in

Code:

chrome://flags"

and search for "Hardware-accelerated video decode".  Flip that to disabled, restart Chrome, try playing your video again.  What happens.

Edit:  Had to make it a code block because of the freakin emojis.

Chrome was currently set to enabled, switched to disabled but it had no effect.

Chrome will only direct play HEVC as long as it's in a MP4 container. If your HEVC videos are in MKV containers it will require a transcode.

The problem is that it isn't transcoding for some reason.

You can also try turning on debug logging.  That will write to the server log what the client says it can play.

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