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 >>/54141/
> It is completely outdated
Which is why using a hardware based media player is absolutely retarded. Get a proper software setup like kodi, plex, or tversity.

 >>/54174/
I don't hook my television up to my phone or Wifi though. I just wish to be able to play the more modern formats instead of having to rely on everything x264 encoded. One would assume newer plays could play x265 but who knows?

I've never even heard of 264/5 bit...  Is that a region thing?  Maybe try some sort of region free player

 >>/54200/

Not an expert by any means but x264 was the standard compression encoding method for MPEG-4 since 2004 and x265 is the successor which was adopted back in 2013 for an even higher video quality compression just a few years ago. The problem is, if you have older hardware and older software they are only compatible with x264 encoded video formats. So I would imagine there is something more modern that will allow users to play x265 encoded videos on their TV sets.

Besides quality being better for x265 encoded video files, they also happen to be smaller in size too, saving the user spare harddrive space when stored.

look for old "Xvid" players.  Xvid released some actual players which probably work with way more codecs, IIRX.  Very rarely DVD players will have an XVID logo