HEVC/H.265 video format

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The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compression standard is a video compression format intended to succeed H.264. It is hard for browsers to universally support HEVC because it is complex and expensive to license. HEVC competes with AV1 which has similar compression quality and provides a free license.

Chrome

  1. 4 - 106: Not supported
  2. 107 - 122: Partial support
  3. 123: Partial support
  4. 124 - 126: Partial support

Edge

  1. 12 - 18: Partial support
  2. 79 - 122: Partial support
  3. 123: Partial support

Safari

  1. 3.1 - 10.1: Not supported
  2. 11 - 12.1: Partial support
  3. 13 - 17.3: Supported
  4. 17.4: Supported
  5. TP: Supported

Firefox

  1. 2 - 119: Not supported
  2. 120: Not supported
  3. 121 - 123: Disabled by default
  4. 124: Disabled by default
  5. 125 - 127: Disabled by default

Opera

  1. 9 - 93: Not supported
  2. 94 - 107: Partial support
  3. 108: Partial support

IE

  1. 5.5 - 10: Not supported
  2. 11: Partial support

Chrome for Android

  1. 122: Partial support

Safari on iOS

  1. 3.2 - 10.3: Not supported
  2. 11 - 17.3: Supported
  3. 17.4: Supported

Samsung Internet

  1. 4: Not supported
  2. 5 - 20: Not supported
  3. 21 - 22: Supported
  4. 23: Supported

Opera Mini

  1. all: Not supported

Opera Mobile

  1. 10 - 12.1: Not supported
  2. 80: Not supported

UC Browser for Android

  1. 15.5: Not supported

Android Browser

  1. 2.1 - 4.4.4: Not supported
  2. 122: Partial support

Firefox for Android

  1. 123: Not supported

QQ Browser

  1. 14.9: Not supported

Baidu Browser

  1. 13.52: Supported

KaiOS Browser

  1. 2.5: Not supported
  2. 3: Not supported
Resources:
Chrome support bug (WontFix)
Firefox support bug (WONTFIX)
Firefox support via OS API bug
Wikipedia article