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Hey Mike!

 MP> Are there any tips/tricks you all have re: playing H.265 video
 MP> on a linux machine?

Make sure your player has H.265 capabilities.

 $ ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep lib.26.
        libx264.so.161 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.161 (0x00007fc80c9f2000)

 $ ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg | grep lib.26.
        libx264.so.161 => /usr/lib/libx264.so.161 (0x00007fd9a99f9000)
        libx265.so.192 => /usr/lib/libx265.so.192 (0x00007fd9a9471000)

As shown above mplayer is H.264 capable while ffmpeg can handle both.  I believe mplayer can be built to use H.265 but so far that has been untested on any machine here.  H.264 works great with everything I've thrown at it.  Also I believe the end result is less bloated than H.265 and like you say your laptop has no issues with it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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