h265 support

[Hollymingyi]

dear author,
when i push mp4 file into ingress service via ffmpeg , if the video is hevc/h265 ，the livekit log cant find mediaTrack published about video, did the ingress service support h265? thank you !

[biglittlebigben]

What protocol are you attempting to use to push media to ingress?

[Hollymingyi]

i have tried rtmp and whip both，they did not work。

[biglittlebigben]

WHIP without transcoding should work. RTMP and WHIP with transcoding are not supported at the point.

[biglittlebigben]

Are you able to use VP9 or AV1? These are not supported either but are likely to get implemented sooner.

[Hollymingyi]

Thank you for your reply . and the Body-worn camera endpoints did not support vp9 or av1 right now，most vendor only support h264 and h265 。

[prokie]

I am not transcoding but still cant get h265 to work?

2026-01-27T15:42:40.416Z WARN ingress service/service.go:174 ingress failed {"nodeID": "NE_nZfCuaYWSKrt", "error": "unsupported format for the source media"}

[biglittlebigben]

Could you try the newer (but still disabled by default) WHIP to SFU path by setting whip_proxy_enabled: true in your ingress server configuration?

[prokie]

I tried with that but still get the same warning and it does not work