Anyone use a 100% free HEVC to MP4 video converter? There are plenty advertised as free online, but when you download you find that it's a trial offer only and very limited. It's not the kind of thing I'd use often that's why I'm after 100% free. My media player plays everything  except HEVC files.

Have you tried AVIDEMUX?  I've not used this for HEVC-MP4 but it claims to be able to do it.  It's a converter that I have used for other purposes and always seems to work for me.  Cross platform so should be available for your OS.

Just installed the latest version of XMediaRecode.

https://www.xmedia-recode.de/download.html

(32 bit version as the 64 bit version doesn't start on my W10 PC)

 

I downloaded a sample from here:

https://x265.com/hevc-video-files/

(first one, upper left, "Tears_400_x265.mp4" (!))

There seems to be no audio (unsure) when playing with VLC?

VLC by the way plays it.
Codecinfo says:

"Codec: MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265) (hvc1)"

 

I opened it with XMediaRecode and converted it to H.264 (as User Defined output)/

Seems to work fine. Resulting file plays fine (also no audio).

 

Be warned: XMediaRecode is not too easy to use and I have never used/understood it's full functionality.

 

If I want to use MediaPlayer it asks for an upgrade costing 0.99 Euro

No thanks.

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by KhunBENQ

6 hours ago, giddyup said:

My media player plays everything  except HEVC files.

Have you tried VLC already?

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Have you tried VLC already?

I want to play the HEVC files on my media player through my TV. Don't like to watch TV or movies on a computer, but VLC will play HEVC, so does the Win 10 player.

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by giddyup

That you can't find anything is probably because what you are looking for doesn't make sense

HEVC is a video compression standard, often called H265

MP4 is a container format for putting audio, video, and other data in it.

So you could have a HEVC compressed video inside a MP4 container and thus talking about converting one to another just doesn't make any sense.

If your media player can play the older H264 standard, then what you probably want to do is to convert your H265 video to H264, both could be inside a MP4 container (or MKV, or probably others)

Whatever you want to do, "ffmpeg" can usually convert everything to everything (video/audio related), so it should be possible to achieve your desired result with it.

I use StaxRip https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/releases, a totally free application using free encoder libraries. It will happily convert from HEVC to AVC (H265 to H264) and put the result in a container you desire, MP4 or MKV.

Alternately, you could also use Avidemux, Also totally free.  http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

 

On 1/6/2019 at 10:41 PM, giddyup said:

I want to play the HEVC files on my media player through my TV. Don't like to watch TV or movies on a computer, but VLC will play HEVC, so does the Win 10 player.

VLC will stream to Chromecast if you can get that. Around 2000 baht on Lazada.

TheVLC option is in Playback/Renderer.

I have at least 5 old media players gathering dust, because they never get updated by the manufacturer. Use now only Chromacast or dedicated HTPC/Game rig.