VideoReDo TVSuite & Professional - General Discussion Thread

[Marayong]

Yes, and the OP was running it in a VM ... so many things could fall over. However ... and a big however .. others chimed in saying VRD had also failed for them after the latest W11 update. I can't see all of them running W11 in a VM on a mac with an ARM processor. Well anything's possible, but that's pushing the odds a fair bit. Still, tick one for VRD working fine after the latest W11 update.

[JoeS99]

I have Video Redo 4,5,and 6 on my fairly new MSI laptop. Installed them all earlier this year.
I've used all 3 versions at various times but today I was working on some Wolverine 8mm scans and suddenly there were three images (monochrome) instead of the one in the center. See Attached.

I think it appeared on Ver 6 but went back to normal after I restarted it but Ver 4 & 5 still have the problem when I open a video file.
Couldn't find anything in the settings... any ideas?

Update: Under Options - Playback Devices, I unchecked Use Video Card YUV Acceleration.
That seemed to fix it on V4 and V5. I noticed that "Video Driver" is different in each version.
Hmmmm.....

Update 2: I remember a video driver update a couple days ago (Intel).
That must have had side effects.

[Marayong]

Could be the video driver update, especially if you had the acceleration setting ticked. Might be worth going through all the settings and turning off all hardware acceleration settings. As VRD gets older and older issues with modern video drivers will become more and more of an issue. Having said that, the lack of any other comments suggests no-one else has experienced your issue (I haven't) so it's presumably related to your specific hardware & software environment.

If you are still having the issue you could try posting your query to the reddit forum - one of the VRD devs frequents that forum.

[JoeS99]

Never gave those settings a thought in the past. It's still checked ON in Ver 6 and it seems to work fine for now.

[Bridgy]

It would be good if Dan Haddix paid a visit here in this Thread, because i hate the Reddit website, it is such a pain in the butt to deal with.

Then again my use of VRD is different than it is for most other users so i guess i never run into the same issues as other users do, and from what i read there are lots of issues with it, however, a lot of those issues i dare say are caused by the user not knowing how to use the software properly.

My only regret with Dan Rosen passing when he did is that 4k HEVC development was not quite finished, i reckon another 6 months of development would have got it to a point where i would have been totally happy with VRD for my own purposes.

If i was to revert back to recording video in 4k/60p AVC i would not have as many issues with editing those files as i do with my HEVC files, but i will never go back to AVC, which is why LosslessCut has become my go to cutting tool for 4k/60p HEVC files.

[hydra3333]

If i was to revert back to recording video in 4k/60p AVC i would not have as many issues with editing those files as i do with my HEVC files, but i will never go back to AVC, which is why LosslessCut has become my go to cutting tool for 4k/60p HEVC files.

Thanks for the info. I see of LosslessCut :

LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files.

and since I use ffmpeg commandline I'm somewhat comforted by your approach, even though I mainly use QuickStreamFix and there is no other free/cheap product on the planet which does a similar thing as well as VideoReDo does (some purport to but do not, some require gui interaction rather than also be commandline usable in scheduled tasks).

I also note with great interest that DELL and HP are reportedly discontinuing HEVC support on some new PC models:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-th...-laptops-cpus/

While HP’s and Dell’s reps didn’t explain the companies’ motives, it’s possible that the OEMs are looking to minimize costs, since OEMs may pay some or all of the licensing fees associated with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support, as well as some or all of the royalties per the number of devices that they sell with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support

The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard are set to increase in January, as licensing administrator Access Advance announced in July. Per a breakdown from patent pool administration VIA Licensing Alliance, royalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from $0.20 each to $0.24 each in the United States. To put that into perspective, in Q3 2025, HP sold 15,002,000 laptops and desktops, and Dell sold 10,166,000 laptops and desktops, per Gartner.

Cheers

[Marayong]

The potential discontinuing of Del & HP support for HEVC is not unprecedented. Back in the days of Win7 & before OEM windows was often drastically slimmed down, especially with laptops & the smaller branded desktops (aka del & HP) that had very limited capacity for hardware upgrading and/or addition. These OEMs only came with drivers for the hardware in question (the full Win had almost all the drivers included) and were missing quite a few windows components - this was because of limited hard drive space combined with the need to include branded bloatware .. cutting down windows meant more bloatware could be included. Post Win7 hard drives on laptops were much bigger so they tended to come with the full install of windows. But now with branded bloatware becoming, well, more bloated, and hard drives if anything getting smaller (no need for a big internal drive when there's the cloud, eh?), the need for slimmed down OEM windows with branded devices has again become required. I daresay the removal of HEVC support is just part of a lot of features that will be removed. Of course, one can always add in HEVC support via microsoft store.


OEM window installs often come with a slimmed down version of windows

[hydra3333]

I daresay the removal of HEVC support is just part of a lot of features that will be removed. Of course, one can always add in HEVC support via microsoft store.

Of course ... although ... after reading the article I asked one of the AIs and googled and something indicated it had been changed in the MS store from a free download to a paid-for download Hard to find, and when one does then one is required to pay !

From one perspective (mine, as it happens ) h.264/avc is looking pretty healthy by comparison.

Cheers

[Marayong]

True, you have to pay for it if you get it through the store ... but hunt online with your preferred search engine to find a copy of the installer elsewhere, install that and amazing enough, MS Store detects it and then keeps it updated for free.

This is where I got it from: https://codecguide.com/media_foundation_codecs.htm

It's also here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/b5gy8y74bk0a4jo/Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_2.0.60531....ppxBundle/file

Also some suggestions here: https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/192715-how-obtain-free-hevc-heic-extensions-mi...oft-store.html

[Bridgy]

Speaking of Dell and HP removing H265 (HEVC) decoding from some of their laptops/Desktop Computers, i just got my new Dell Pro Max Slim Desktop PC (Model FCS1250) delivered today.

I immediately removed the 512gb Windows 11 Pro NVMe drive from the computer before i even connected the Power and MSI Screen, and i installed a brand new Crucial T500 NVMe drive with a Clone of my Metabox Windows 11 X-Lite Optimum Pro on it using my Hasleo Disk Clone software.

I plugged the power cable in, i then went to plug the HDMI cable from the MSI screen into the back of the Dell PC, only to discover the Dell has 3x Display Ports and no HDMI, so i was not able to power up the Dell, got to head off to the Computer store tomorrow and grab a new cable with Display Port on each end.

This new Dell PC will not be affected by the H265 decoding crap thank god.


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OEM window installs often come with a slimmed down version of windows

What do you mean by OEM Windows installations are slimmed down versions of windows.

Also, the H265 HEVC decoding thing has absolutely nothing to do with anything that you wrote in your post just above, this decoding issue is all about Licensing issues, and the cost involved in having it included in their computers/laptops etc.

Dell and HP would just need to increase the cost of those affected machines if they had to pay for the H265 licenses, and the license fee for each affected machine would be very minimal anyway, i even saw the average cost per machine to include the license fee but i can't recall what it was.

As for using LosslessCut to do my 4k/60p HEVC video edits, it seems to work best when doing cuts at Keyframes when using the files later in VRD, if it is just a cut and shut job without needing to do anything else, the cuts can be anywhere, but if i join 2 or mor separate files together then i would do the cuts on keyframes to be safe.

With my 4k/60p HEVC files the keyframes are at 1 second intervals, so it does not bother me that much to cut them at that interval, if i find a file that really requires me to do a cut somewhere between keyframes then i throw it into VRD and just suffer the lag and slow seek time to locate the precise frame i need to cut at, exporting the file is not an issue.