What is a .HEVC file?
HEVC is another name for the H.265 video codec; a raw .hevc file is an unwrapped elementary stream.
- Did you know
- HDR10, the most widely supported HDR video standard, takes its name from its 10-bit colour depth; it is codec-agnostic but most often carried in HEVC’s Main 10 profile.
- HEVC was developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding, a partnership of ITU-T’s VCEG and ISO/IEC’s MPEG groups.
- As a standard it carries two names: ITU-T Recommendation H.265 and ISO/IEC 23008-2, also called MPEG-H Part 2.
- HEVC can encode resolutions up to 8K Ultra HD, with picture sizes reaching 8192 by 4320 pixels.
- It splits each frame into flexible “coding tree units” instead of the fixed-size macroblocks that older codecs used.
- What Analyser shows you
- Read the container, codec, resolution, and frame rate of MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, and WebM video, step through frames, and extract the audio track. Raw H.264/H.265 elementary streams (.h264/.265) are remuxed to MP4 in-browser so they play too, as are AVCHD camcorder files (.mts/.m2ts) - the video is copied and the audio transcoded to AAC. Sony cameras (Alpha, FX, RX) that embed a gyro / accelerometer "rtmd" timed-metadata track have that inertial data decoded and plotted - the same gyroscope and accelerometer samples Gyroflow and Catalyst Browse use to stabilise footage - alongside the ISO, white balance and capture time.
- Open a .HEVC file
- Drag a .HEVC file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.