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Port details on branch 2026Q4
x265 H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) format
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Port Added: 2014-09-02 15:06:27
Last Update: 2026-10-10 13:01:14
Commit Hash: c8ddf6f
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License: GPLv2+
WWW:
https://www.x265.org/
Description:
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest generation video compression standard. * This standard was developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), through their Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) * HEVC is also known as ISO/IEC 23008-2 MPEG-H Part 2 and ITU-T H.265 * HEVC provides superior video quality and up to twice the data compression as the previous standard (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) * HEVC can support 8K Ultra High Definition video, with a picture size up to 8192x4320 pixels
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/x265-4.3/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/x265-4.3/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/x265-4.3/GPLv2+
  5. bin/x265
  6. include/hdr10plus.h
  7. include/x265.h
  8. include/x265_config.h
  9. lib/libhdr10plus.a
  10. lib/libhdr10plus.so
  11. lib/libx265.a
  12. lib/libx265.so
  13. lib/libx265.so.217
  14. libdata/pkgconfig/x265.pc
  15. @owner
  16. @group
  17. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • x265>0:multimedia/x265
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/x265/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/x265
  • pkg install x265
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: x265
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1791256346 SHA256 (x265_4.3.tar.gz) = 83c53e4c8bbb8f1e33ed59e10a7d621d1d7801ca853910c3eb41f038b8ffb121 SIZE (x265_4.3.tar.gz) = 2052112

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
x265
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64leriscv64
FreeBSD:13:latest4.14.1n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly4.14.1n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest4.14.23.4_23.6_14.23.4_2-3.4_2-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly4.14.1-3.6_14.13.5_13.5_13.5_1-
FreeBSD:15:latest4.24.2n/a3.6_1n/an/a---
FreeBSD:15:quarterly4.14.1n/a-n/an/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest4.14.2n/a-n/an/a---
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. nasm : devel/nasm
  2. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  3. ninja : devel/ninja
This port is required by:
for Libraries
  1. emulators/fceux
  2. graphics/digikam
  3. graphics/libbpg
  4. graphics/libheif
  5. multimedia/emby-server
  6. multimedia/ffmpeg
  7. multimedia/ffmpeg4
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  2. multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-x265
  3. multimedia/jellyfin-ffmpeg
  4. multimedia/jellyfin-ffmpeg7
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Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. multimedia/cinelerra-gg*
  2. multimedia/emby-server-devel*
  3. multimedia/ffmpeg6*
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* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for x265-4.3: SVTHEVC=off: HEVC encoding via SVT-HEVC VMAF=off: VMAF scores ====> Options available for the multi PIXELWIDTH: you have to choose at least one of them HI10P=on: Enable 10-bit pixels (may break on i386) HI12P=on: Enable 12-bit pixels (may break on i386) HI8P=on: Enable 8-bit pixel-width (you, probably, want this) ====> Options available for the radio OPTIMIZATION: you can only select none or one of them DEBUG=off: Enable debugging (and -O0 -g) OPTIMIZED_FLAGS=on: Enable O3 optimization ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
multimedia_x265
USES:
cmake compiler:c++14-lang cpe pathfix dos2unix
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Master Sites:
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  1. http://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x265/
  2. https://github.com/Multicorewareinc/x265/releases/download/4.3/
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