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aliofwind
Brass Contributor
Jan 20, 2021

HEVC video decoding broken with B-frames

When Edge Chromium playing HEVC video, sometimes video will be similar to stuttering but audio is normal.   To find out the cause of the problem, I test to playback many HEVC video, include videos ...
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AmineI
Brass Contributor
Oct 27, 2021

Hi josh_bodner !
Do you have any insights, plans, or updates you could share about HEVC support on Windows ? The fact that it seems to work with older versions of the Windows Store HEVC extension, as found in the last few comments, is quite curious.

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josh_bodner
Former Employee
Nov 04, 2021

AmineI I passed it onto our video team, and they thought it was quite weird too, since at least on the Edge side, we didn't make any changes to this in the time since it stopped working, so apparently the bug was always there, and the new version of the extension just happened to start triggering it!  

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      josh_bodner
      Former Employee
      Jan 12, 2022

      We're continuing to push the owning team to fix bugs on this, but to be clear, the bugs are being fixed by the team that owns that HEVC extension, and so it's the release of a new version of that extension that you're waiting on.  

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        GrandDynamo
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 12, 2022
        Good to know that work is being done on fixing this issue.
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      SEA6000
      Brass Contributor
      Jan 01, 2022
      I use the free and pay package, all is broken, wish they fix it asap.

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