I'm using the latest Ubuntu Desktop 21.10, 64bit on Raspberry Pi 4B, 8Gb and I wander, if I need to separately install video codecs, like H.265 / HEVC, when using VLC player?
I'm a newcomer to Ubuntu and Linux in general.
When on Windows, there's no need to install codecs separately, when using VLC for watching movies. Is it the same on Ubuntu?
I've tried adding "PPA for libde265" repository, but there was a lot of output and I simply don't understand why it gave me 404 error.
I've used this answer over here.
spinn2046@UbuntuDesktop:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265
[sudo] password for spinn2046:
Repository: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libde265/ubuntu/ impish main'
Description:
libde265 is an open source implementation of the h.265 video codec. It is written from scratch and has a plain C API to enable a simple integration into other software.
libde265 supports WPP and tile-based multithreading and includes SSE optimizations. The decoder supports all features of the Main and Main10 profile (HEVC-V1) and most profiles of HEVC-V2 (chroma 4:2:2, 4:4:4, monochrome, and bit depths up to 14 bits).
libde265 is released under the LGPL, further information are available at
http://www.libde265.org
https://github.com/strukturag/libde265
This PPA contains Ubuntu packages of the libde265 library, plugins for
the GStreamer framework, VLC and required dependencies.
The GStreamer plugin source is available at
https://github.com/strukturag/gstreamer-libde265
The VLC plugin source is available at
https://github.com/strukturag/vlc-libde265
You can get sample Matroska streams from
http://www.libde265.org/downloads-videos/
http://www.divx.com/de/hevc
http://labs.divx.com/node/127909
More info: https://launchpad.net/~strukturag/+archive/ubuntu/libde265
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/strukturag-ubuntu-libde265-impish.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/strukturag-ubuntu-libde265-impish.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/strukturag-ubuntu-libde265.gpg with fingerprint C6610628A707A7E5E391D27A9641080A705C2B92
Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports impish InRelease
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libde265/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports impish-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports impish-backports InRelease
Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports impish-security InRelease
Err:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libde265/ubuntu impish Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libde265/ubuntu impish Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
