How to Successfully Play H.265 Videos on Any Version of Kodi?

Kodi H.265 Playback Issues

• I am using Kodi 17.5, but I always stuck when playing H.265 videos. How to solve it?
• I failed to play a 4K H.265 MKV movie with my Kodi player. Does Kodi support 4K H.265 MKV?
• Every time I play H.265 with Kodi, the video is out of sync with audio. Any advice?

Why Failed to Play H.265 in Kodi?

As a free and open source media player, Kodi supports to play almost all video formats and codecs. And Kodi supports to play H.265 video since Kodi 14. But sometimes, many users have failed to play H.265 video with Kodi which claims to play H.265. Well, playing H.265 video failure is not caused by Kodi, but by the H.265 codec. H.265, also known as HEVC, is a highly compressed video compression standard and working H.265 needs an accelerated and powerful computer. If your computer system is too slow or your computer is not installed with a H.265 hardware acceleration you will fail to play H.265 in Kodi.

How to Successfully Play H.265 in Kodi?

You can always successfully play the H.265 video in Kodi with a powerful computer which has H.265 decoder, but this option is never the first one. Many users have successfully play H.265 on any computer by converting the H.265 to another Kodi more friendly video codec, H.264. To convert H.265 to H.264, users only need a professional H.265 to H.264 converter, like iDealshare VideoGo.

H.265 to Kodi Converter - iDealshare VideoGo

• Convert any H.265 video in any container format, like MKV H.265, MP4 H.265, etc to H.264 video in any container format.
• Convert other unsupported video formats or codecs to any version of Kodi supported ones.
• Convert any unsupported video format to QuickTime, Windows Media Player, VLC, MKplayer, and other media players supported video formats.
• Convert any unsupported video format to iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android phones or tablets, BlackBerry, Wii, Roku and other portable devices supported video formats.
• Convert any unsupported video format to iMovie, FCP, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, EDIUS and other video editing programs supported video formats.
• Convert any video format to any other video format.

Guide on Converting H.265 to Kodi

The following steps will work to convert any H.265 video to any version of Kodi supported video formats.

Make Preparation: Free download H.265 to Kodi Converter

Free download the professional H.265 to Kodi Converter - iDealshare VideoGo(for Mac, for Windows), install and launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Add H.265 file

Click the "Add file" button to import the H.265 video to this H.265 to Kodi converter. Or drag and drop the H.265 video to this H.265 to Kodi converter.

Step 2 Targeted output format setting

Select MP4 H.264, MKV H.264, etc as your output format by clicking "Profile" button >"General Video" category.

Step 3 Convert H.265 to Kodi

Finally click the "Convert" button to easily convert the H.265 video to Kodi more friendly H.264 video.