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H.265 High Efficiency Video
File type: Digital video and movie file
Files with h265 file extension can be most notably found as videos encoded using special, HEVC - High Efficiency Video Coding codec also known as H.265.
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
The h265 file extension is mainly related to the h.265 High Efficiency Video Coding codec.
HEVC is a video compression standard and a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding). It can be found within container formats like MPEG.
You can use for example VLC media player to play these kind of video files. VLC is available almost on any platform.
A lot of multimedia converters support h.265 videos nowadays
Apps designed for playing h265 files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
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