5KPlayerĥKPlayer is a 100% free & GPU accelerated HEVC player that accepts 10/12-bit HEVC footage. Part 2: Best 5 Free HEVC Players for Windows / Mac 1. The best free 4K/H.265/HEVC video player for PC/Mac should play HEVC videos with high accuracy, high velocity and high grade. That's why it's challenging for a regular HEVC x265 player to decode and play HEVC (x265) video and there are tons of errors like CPU overheating, laptop heavy lag, HEVC video choppy, CPU overuse, etc. That's high demand for the hardware (CPU & GPU) and x265 HEVC processing software. However, the high video compression efficiency also means increased computational complexity - it requires roughly 10x more compute power than H264. So HEVC is the best choice to encode high-def video, especially 4K and 8K Ultra HD videos. Compared to H.264, H.265 approximately doubles the compression ratio. HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)/H.265 is a new video compression standard related greatly to high quality of videos. Part 1: About HEVC Codec - Why You Need A HEVC Player?
Part 2: Best 5 Free HEVC Players for Windows / Mac.
