HEVC / H.265 Decoding

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the backbone of 4K and HDR video. UMedia utilizes zero-copy hardware acceleration to decode massive bitrates without taxing your CPU.

Hardware Acceleration APIs

NVDEC (NVIDIA): Full support for 8, 10, and 12-bit HEVC on Pascal (GTX 10-series) and newer GPUs.
QuickSync (Intel): Robust decoding on Intel 7th Gen (Kaby Lake) CPUs and newer.
VAAPI (Linux): Native integration for smooth playback on Wayland and X11.
VideoToolbox (macOS): Hardware decoding on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) and modern Intel Macs.

No $0.99 Extensions

Unlike default OS players that require you to buy codec licenses from their app stores, UMedia includes everything needed to decode HEVC natively via open-source libraries.