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Hey Mike!

 MP> My video player of choice is vlc.

It does get around.  I am unsure how to get vlc to report what codecs it has available to it but have heard that H.265 is possible.  As of this writing I cannot say the same for mplayer which is what I am using here.

 MP> I think you have that last bit re:bloat backwards.

That is entirely possible.  I am just going by a conversion I did once using ffmpeg comparing H.264 with H.265 output.

 MP> The same size video file that will hold nearly 20 minutes when
 MP> H.265 is enabled will only hold 3 minutes of video if H.264 mode
 MP> is used.  That is why I am trying to use it.

I am guessing both were created by the camera.

For the record 'ffmpeg -codecs' reports this interesting line in it's output;
 DEV.L. hevc                 H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) (decoders: hevc hevc_v4l2m2m ) (encoders: libx265 hevc_v4l2m2m )

I believe libx265 is used by vlc as well.

Life is good,
Maurice

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