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HEVC Encoding Support

Hi,
Is the Nexus 6P supports HEVC encoding? When I record a UHD video, it appears to encode using H264 and I don't see the encoder in android.media.MediaCodecList.
Seems unexpected since the Snapdragon 810 offers HEVC capabilities.
cheers

bernick said:
Hi,
Is the Nexus 6P supports HEVC encoding? When I record a UHD video, it appears to encode using H264 and I don't see the encoder in android.media.MediaCodecList.
Seems unexpected since the Snapdragon 810 offers HEVC capabilities.
cheers
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In addition, it seems like I cannot use the AVC high profile. When I request so, I always get: "Use baseline profile instead of 8 for AVC recording"

bernick said:
In addition, it seems like I cannot use the AVC high profile. When I request so, I always get: "Use baseline profile instead of 8 for AVC recording"
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There's a few things that really burns my butt about owning a Nexus 6P. One is no 1080p 60FPS and the second is it doesnt record in h.265. I feel your pain.

Gytole said:
There's a few things that really burns my butt about owning a Nexus 6P. One is no 1080p 60FPS and the second is it doesnt record in h.265. I feel your pain.
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But do you think it is only a software constraint that could be worked around, since the snapdragon 810 has hevc encoding capabilities?

bernick said:
But do you think it is only a software constraint that could be worked around, since the snapdragon 810 has hevc encoding capabilities?
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I feel as if it is. There's no reason why it doesnt use it. The phones fast enougj, the ram and internal storage are fast enough it just doesnt nake sense. Maybe it's the sensor? If the API doesnt have support for it through the driver then it won't happen anytime soon

Gytole said:
I feel as if it is. There's no reason why it doesnt use it. The phones fast enougj, the ram and internal storage are fast enough it just doesnt nake sense. Maybe it's the sensor? If the API doesnt have support for it through the driver then it won't happen anytime soon
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Well good news, I have installed Android N and the HEVC encoder is available (not sure about [email protected]).

10-bit H264 hardware decoding

As the title says, I wanna ask if the Axon 7 Mini supports 10-bit H264 hardware decoding. I'm not entirely sure, but according to Kodi's wiki on Android Hardware (not saying this is the most credible source, but I couldn't find anywhere else anyways), the mini does have HW decode for both H264 and H265, but without any notes, implying it can do up to 10bit I'd assume. If it DOES actually support 10bit, is there a way to make use of it? I have no luck with MXPlayer so far.

Hi @auxillium,
Could you tell me what's the 10-bit H264 hardware decoding? Is it a kind of flash or root? Pls forgive my ignoreness.
Thanks in advance!

William Guo said:
Hi @auxillium,
Could you tell me what's the 10-bit H264 hardware decoding? Is it a kind of flash or root? Pls forgive my ignoreness.
Thanks in advance!
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It's for playing videos. 10bit is the color depth and H264 is the format. Hardware decoding is when there's a dedicated chip for doing a certain task, which is often faster than having it done by the CPU itself. In this case, I'm asking if the Axon 7 Mini's chip is capable of hardware decoding videos of the format H264, with 10bit color depth.

does this phone supports playing hevc 10bit files

hi i am thinking of buying this phone does this phone supports playing 1080 10bit hevc files with hardware decoding

G7 Hevc Decode support

hi, from the specs this chipset should have HEVC support up to 4kp60.
It doesnt say if it supports 10bit or not
The strange this is by probing : HEVCMainTierLevel41=true or false, we get a false, which will imply that the chipset/OS combo doesnt even support [email protected]
The only HEVC im able to HW decode is sub SD resolution..
Any idea why and when the HEVC decode abilities was crippled ?
/D

Does the Fire HD8 Plus (2020, Mali-G52 MC1 GPU) support 10bit HEVC?

According to this the Fire 8 HD Plus (2020) has the Mali-G52 MC1 GPU:
https://www.gsmarena.com/amazon_fire_hd_8_plus_(2020)-10246.php
From what I can tell this GPU should support hardware 10bit HEVC decoding but MX Player Pro and XPlayer both force themselves to software (choppy) when playing those files. Non 10bit HEVC seem to work fine.
Am I missing something, shouldn't this work?
Edit: This also indicates it should support Main10 1080p Level 4.1 @ 30 fps (which are my test files): https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-device-specifications-firehd-models.html
Edit 2: These are test videos you can try, I can't get any of the Main10 videos to play hardware accelerated (all the non Main10 HEVC files do play hardware accelerated):
http://jell.yfish.us/

TalynOne said:
According to this the Fire 8 HD Plus (2020) has the Mali-G52 MC1 GPU:
https://www.gsmarena.com/amazon_fire_hd_8_plus_(2020)-10246.php
From what I can tell this GPU should support hardware 10bit HEVC decoding but MX Player Pro and XPlayer both force themselves to software (choppy) when playing those files. Non 10bit HEVC seem to work fine.
Am I missing something, shouldn't this work?
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You can check the codecs using AIDA64 to support 10bit HEVC or not.
Get AIDA64 from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finalwire.aida64

AmznUser444 Dev said:
You can check the codecs using AIDA64 to support 10bit HEVC or not.
Get AIDA64 from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finalwire.aida64
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Doesn't help, I doubled checked of course it lists HEVC, which I already verified, but that doesn't tell me if it supports 10bit HEVC. I mean obviously it doesn't since the players are forced in software mode I'm just asking why that is if the GPU seems capable.
Edit: I also checked AIDA64 on my phone which does play 10bit HEVC hardware accelerated and in the codecs list it just lists HEVC just like the 2020 Fire 8, there's no separate codec entry for 10bit HEVC in the AIDA64 list.