MKV's showing as HEVC codec

[Shooter3k]

When I use MakeMKV to create an MKV from a file or disk, for some reason the video format/codec always shows up as "HEVC" ..... which is later throwing off some applications I have running that are looking for 'non hevc' files.

I've search the forums and haven't come up with much. Can someone help me understand why this is happening? Is there a way to have the MKV files not be created as HEVC?

This is a paste from MediaInfo but other applications (like VLC) report the same HEVC codec.


General
Unique ID : xxxxxxxx
Complete name : xxxxxxxxx
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 45.4 GiB
Duration : 2 h 3 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 52.6 Mb/s
Movie name : xxxxxxxxxxxx
Encoded date : UTC 2020-09-28 16:57:16
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.15.2 win(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.15.2 (1.3.10/1.5.2) win(x64-release)
FileExtension_Invalid : mkv mk3d mka mks

Video
ID : 1
ID in the original source m : 4113 (0x1011)
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5.1@High
HDR format : SMPTE ST 2086, HDR10 compatible
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 2 h 3 min
Bit rate : 47.0 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 (Type 2)
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.236
Stream size : 40.6 GiB (89%)
Writing library : ATEME Titan File 3.9.0 (4.9.0.0)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.2020
Transfer characteristics : PQ
Matrix coefficients : BT.2020 non-constant
Mastering display color pri : Display P3
Mastering display luminance : min: 0.0020 cd/m2, max: 1000 cd/m2
Original source medium : Blu-ray

[Woodstock]

Pretty much any UHD disk will report HEVC, because they're encoded as h.265 on the disk. Non-UHD disks will show a variety of encodings, with h.264 and VC-1 rather common.

[Shooter3k]

Thanks for that info.

I realize this isn't an MakeMKV question but hopeful you guys already know the answer; is there any way to determine the 50GB UHD HEVC files vs the 25GB re-encoded/compressed HEVC files?

[Ezatoka]

I'm rather sure the line "Writing library : libmakemkv v1.15.2 (1.3.10/1.5.2) win(x64-release)" gets rewritten from your encoder when you reencode. I know Handbrake does (like "Writing application : HandBrake 1.3.0 2019110900")