With the large screen and excellent sound effects, TV is able to present users with the more fantastic viewing experiences. At the same time, most TVs can be able to support the USB device, which means other digital media content could be played via the USB port easily. One of the most popular TV brands should be LG. As well, LG TV supports the output digital formats. However, among various digital formats, HEVC files can’t be played smoothly reflected by some users on LG TV. Have you ever heard about HEVC format? What is the format used for? Why is it not able to play the HEVC files successfully on LG TV? Now, we would explain this topic in details.

Part 1: Can LG TV Support HEVC Format?

HEVC is the abbreviation of High-Efficiency Video Coding. It is a new video compression standard used to replace the H.264 / AVC encoding standard. On January 26, 2013, HEVC officially became an international standard. HEVC can be considered a protocol standard that will soon become popular, no matter whether it is a 3D Blu-ray player or some other streaming media players, it urgently needs a new codec to achieve the ability to play 4K content. It is very gratifying that the entire frame structure of the HEVC protocol standard has been determined. It will increase the compression efficiency by more than double on the basis of the complexity of 2 to 4 times of the H.264 standard.

Even though HEVC format is perfect for the 4K content, and moreover, LG TV has declared that it is able to support HEVC format, during the playback, the HEVC files could not be played smoothly on the LG TV. Especially, when users try to play the HEVC files via USB device, some unfriendly failure would appear. Therefore, can LG TV support HEVC format? The answer should be dependent. In order to play the HEVC files smoothly on LG TV, some necessary things should be prepared. Next, I would elaborate on the details on how to play the HEVC file on LG TV?

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Part 2: How to Play HEVC File on LG TV?

Before playing HEVC files on LG TV, what you have to make sure is that your LG TV and your HEVC files have met the following requirements.

Make sure your LG TV is able to support HEVC H.265 codec, please notice that this is H.265 codec, not H.264. To find out whether your LG TV supports HEVC format, you can refer to the LG TV’s manuals or instructions. If your LG TV mode doesn’t support HEVC H.265 codec, then you can also refer to a third party media player app.

Make sure your LG TV is not limited in the the HEVC video format. What this means is that even though your LG TV may support H.265, but it only supports some specified HEVC formats, for example it only supports HEVC video in MP4 video specifications. But a HEVC format can be varied to other more formats, like MKV. If your current HEVC is encoded into MKV format, then the LG TV would not be able play the HEVC files smoothly.

Concerning these aspects, your HEVC media content could be played easily. If any of these points should not be included, you would encounter the HEVC playback failure. But if your LG TV has met the above requirements, then you can follow the steps below to get the details on how to play HEVC files on LG TV.

Step 1. Prepare your HEVC file and convert it to your USB device. Make sure your USB device is in the good conditions.
Step 2. Prepare a USB cable and connect the USB to your LG TV’s output port.
Step 3. Click the settings button on the remote controller to select the playing mode “via exterior device”. Then your LG TV can detect the USB device and your HEVC file could be located on your TV. Finally, click “OK” button to select the HEVC files for further playing.

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Part 3: How to Solve LG TV Won't Play HEVC Movies?

If you still can’t play the HEVC movies on LG TV by trying the above steps, then another more efficient method could be for your further option. Even though HEVC files can’t be played smoothly on LG TV, if your HEVC movies could be converted into other LG TV more compatible format, such as MP4, or AVI, then the HEVC playback could be easily played on your LG TV.

For the encoding process of HEVC movies, you have to seek help from a third-party video converting tool. Concerning the best video converters, you can turn to Leawo Video Converter. Leawo Video Converter is able to rip HEVC formats to various video formats with 100% original quality and 6X higher speed. It could support 180+ video and audio formats conversion with accuracy and no quality loss. The guide shows you how to convert video files by using Leawo Video Converter. Download and install Leawo Video Converter on your computer beforehand. Note that Leawo Video Converter has Windows version and Mac version, choose the proper version that is compatible with your computer OS. For the detailed steps, please refer to the following steps.

   

Step 1. Download Leawo Video Converter and install it on your computer.
Step 2. Load the HEVC video to your computer. You can click on the “Add Video” icon to import the file or just drag the HEVE movie directly to the main menu. Once the movie has been imported, then you can see the HEVC movie immediately on the list.

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Step 3. Select the output format. You can open drop-down box beside the green icon “Convert” to choose “Change” to enter the “Profile” panel where you can set the output video format. Here, you can choose “MP4 Video” which is much more compatible with LG TV.

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Step 4. Set the HD Video parameters. You can just open the drop-down box to click “Edit” instead of “Change” in the main menu. It includes “Video Codec”, “Bite Rates”, “Resolution”, “Frame Rate” and “Aspect Ratio”.

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Step 5. Start converting. Click the big green icon “Convert” on the main interface to start converting the HEVC movie to MP4. Before it starts, you need to confirm the “Save to” route. Then just click “Convert” to start. Finally, you just need to wait and the conversion process will be completed in several minutes.

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Part 4: Free Alternative Player Software to Play HEVC File

Instead of playing HEVC files directly by setting further parameters, you can also turn asides to another more efficient way to obtain the HEVC playback. That is to seek help from another HEVC media player that has the ability to play the HEVC files. If you are looking for such a media player to present the HEVC playback, then you can refer to Leawo Blu-ray Player.

As a 100% free and 6-in-1 media player software, Leawo Blu-ray Player contains all media playback solutions you need for your leisure entertainment, including 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, CD, HD (4K), HEVC, MPEG, WMV and so on. With advanced image and audio processing technology, Leawo Blu-ray Player provides you extraordinary movie playback and cinema-like experience. Furthermore, within Leawo Blu-ray Player, you could obtain the personalized settings according to your preference and all the settings could be done automatically. What is worthy of mentioning is that it can even enable premium users to back up Blu-ray movies and convert Blu-ray to MKV files without quality loss.

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Leawo Free Blu-ray Player 

☉ 100% free movie player for Windows & Mac users to play Ultra HD 4K, 1080P and 720P videos.

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☉ Serves as a powerful Blu-ray/DVD to MKV converter to convert Blu-ray/DVD disc, folder and ISO image to MKV with lossless quality and high speed.

Step 1. Download Leawo Blu-ray Player and install it.
Step 2. Enter the main interface and load the HEVC movie on the computer by clicking the “Open File” button on the home interface.

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Step 3. Set subtitles. After loading the ISO movie, it will be played automatically. During the playback, you can move mouse to the title area. Then select the first icon and a pop-up window for subtitles setting will appear which includes “Enable subtitles”, “Subtitle offset”, “Subtitle selecting”, “Browse for subtitle”.

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Step 4. Set video and audio parameters. The video and audio setting process is as the same as subtitle settings. Click the second icon and the third icon in the title area to set video parameters and audio parameters respectively. The editing features of Leawo Blu-ray Player could allow you to obtain a customized video and will give you more special watching experience.

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Part 5: Conclusion

LG TV actually supports HEVC format, but due to some limits of LG TV and some other factors, LG TV fails to play the HEVC files. But in order to play the HEVC files successfully on LG TV, you should make sure your LG TV support various HEVC format specifications, which can be then able to support various HEVC formats, like MP4 or MKV.

But if you still fail to play the HEVC file on your LG TV, then you can try to adopt Leawo Video Converter to convert the original HEVC files to other more LG TV compatible formats, like MP4 or AVI. Last of all, another much easier way to solve the problem is to use Leawo Blu-ray Player as the firm choice to present the HEVC playback without any quality loss.