VVC / H.266 Support

[OnyxUK 84]

Hey, Just a quick question of VVC Codec (H.266) to see if this will be support by emby once they have released it fully to the public.

VVC was released at the end of 2020 for testing on OTT companies etc and hopefully should be releasing it to the public domain fairly soon. of course there soon may be 2 years but would just like to ask if its something that is possible.

EDIT :

If you would also like to have this improvement/feature please give a like on this post so that the devs can see how much/little demand it currently has Thanks guys 

Edited August 12, 2021 by ONYX MEDIA
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[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes if it gains traction and popularity then I'm sure we'll end up supporting it.

[denysfontaine 0]

Now you can use FFMEPG 7.1 to encode / decode vvc1

ffmeg -i input.mp4  -c:v vvc testvvc.mp4

Media Player Classic now decode vvc1

[BillOatman 596]

Today, does Emby support H.266 (libvvenc in ffmpeg speak) video codec?
If so, do all Emby clients?

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, BillOatman said:

Today, does Emby support H.266 (libvvenc in ffmpeg speak) video codec?
If so, do all Emby clients?

Hi, to be honest, I'm not sure it's been tested, but if livvenc happens to be in our ffmpeg build, then there's a chance it will just work.

If it isn't, then we can look at adding it in our next ffmpeg update.

[denysfontaine 0]

Still does not work in my side.  With or without hardware encoding/decoding

Device : 3rd gen fire TV Cube

Server cpu : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700   2.10 GHz

 

Here are some logs :

 

ffmpeg version 5.1-emby_2023_06_25_p4 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC

Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: none (vvc1 / 0x31637676), none(tv, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080, 612 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 15360 tbn, Start-Time 1.033s (default)

Stream #0:0 (?) -> scale:default (graph 0)

Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (aac (native) -> aac (native))

Decoder (codec none) not found for input stream #0:0

 

FFmpeg emby-version seems not to be up-to-date.  The latest release is 7.1.1 and support encode / decode of vvc1 (h.266) codec.

 

Heeellllpppp :)

 

Thanks

[BillOatman 596]

@denysfontaine  FFmpeg officially supports H.266/VVC encoding via libvvenc starting from version 7.1, with integration added on June 15, 2024.

@Luke I do not see any indication in the Emby ffmpeg as to what version of ffmpeg it was based on.  Was it before or after version 7.1, June 15, 2024 of ffmpeg?

[Luke 42077]

7 hours ago, BillOatman said:

@denysfontaine  FFmpeg officially supports H.266/VVC encoding via libvvenc starting from version 7.1, with integration added on June 15, 2024.

@Luke I do not see any indication in the Emby ffmpeg as to what version of ffmpeg it was based on.  Was it before or after version 7.1, June 15, 2024 of ffmpeg?

 

Before that, but we will be updating on the beta channel soon.

[JerryPenguin 3]

Hello,

Is there any news on when we will be able to play H.266-encoded movies directly on Android?

Best regards

[Luke 42077]

On 12/25/2025 at 7:42 AM, JerryPenguin said:

Hello,

Is there any news on when we will be able to play H.266-encoded movies directly on Android?

Best regards

Hi, do you have a device with hardware support for it?

[Suliamu 36]

On 12/26/2025 at 5:43 PM, Luke said:

Hi, do you have a device with hardware support for it?

Intel's Lunar Lake-line has h266-hardware-decoding support. 
They were launched in Q3'24, so i guess we are "there" now and support will grow steadily. 
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/240954/intel-core-ultra-7-processor-256v-12m-cache-up-to-4-80-ghz/specifications.html

Edited December 27, 2025 by Suliamu

[ebr 16169]

21 hours ago, Suliamu said:

Intel's Lunar Lake-line has h266-hardware-decoding support.

Hi. You have one of those in an Android device?

On 12/25/2025 at 7:42 AM, JerryPenguin said:

Is there any news on when we will be able to play H.266-encoded movies directly on Android?

 

[JerryPenguin 3]

I have ordered one Ugoos AM9 64bit with Amlogic S905X5 SOC.

[Luke 42077]

OK then yes this is something we can look at. Thanks.

[JerryPenguin 3]

Hi Luke,

Thanks in advance and happy new year.

The box is not expected to arrive until mid-January Unfortunately, boxes with h266/VVC support are hard to come by, and as far as I know, the only Armlogiy CPU with h266/VVC support is the S905X5 SOC (without M).

See you soon,

Best regards, Jerry