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I'm unable to play HEVC files in VLC 2.2.4. I use 14.04 LTS. I tried the following solution.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265

It doesn't work. This is the error I'm getting.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc-plugin-libde265 : Depends: libvlccore7 (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

For apt-cache policy libvlccore7 the output is

libvlccore7:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.1.6-0ubuntu14.04.2
  Version table:
     2.1.6-0ubuntu14.04.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages
     2.1.2-2build2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

For sudo apt-get install -f libvlccore7 the output is

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libvlccore7 : Depends: vlc-data (= 2.1.6-0ubuntu14.04.2) but 2.2.4-3ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1york1 is to be installed

I don't really understand this as I do have VLC 2.2.4.

user178834
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Try to add the source code repository and software restricted by copyright legal issues, as seen in this image:

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Then, run a package cache update with this command:

sudo apt-get update

After updating, search your plugin package by running:

sudo apt-cache search vlc-plugin-libde265

I suggest for you to install ffmpeg.

Kaz Wolfe
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