<p>I'm trying to decode an HEVC/H.265+ rtsp stream to an image using ffmpeg as follows:</p>
<pre><code>ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -stimeout 10000000 -i 'rtsp://user:passwd@url:port/Streaming/tracks/101?starttime=20210826T130000Z&amp;endtime=20210826T130010Z' -vframes 1 -y image.jpg
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<p>but I'm getting the following:</p>
<pre><code>[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.
</code></pre>
<p>I tried using the latest version of ffmpeg but still the same issue.</p>

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2021-09-10T01:05:18.230Z
I think FFMPEG logs had provided a pertinent answer; do you think so?
xer-rex
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I tried using the latest version of ffmpeg but it still the same, when investigating deeply I found that the first frames are not decoded correctly but the next ones are decoded normally. If I reference [this paper](https://www.hikvision.com/content/dam/hikvision/en/brochures-download/product-brochures/White-Paper_H.265-Plus-Brochure.pdf), seems like ffmpeg is extracting just the residual part
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Decode Multi-Layer HEVC
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# Decode Multi-Layer HEVC

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-08)

I'm trying to decode an HEVC/H.265+ rtsp stream to an image using ffmpeg as follows:
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -stimeout 10000000 -i 'rtsp://user:passwd@url:port/Streaming/tracks/101?starttime=20210826T130000Z&endtime=20210826T130010Z' -vframes 1 -y image.jpg

but I'm getting the following:
[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

[rtsp @ 0x56031fe7f500] Multi-layer HEVC coding is not implemented. Update your FFmpeg version to the newest one from Git. If the problem still occurs, it means that your file has a feature which has not been implemented.

I tried using the latest version of ffmpeg but still the same issue.

**Tags:** ffmpeg, hevc

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I think FFMPEG logs had provided a pertinent answer; do you think so?  
> **username_0**: I tried using the latest version of ffmpeg but it still the same, when investigating deeply I found that the first frames are not decoded correctly but the next ones are decoded normally. If I reference [this paper](https://www.hikvision.com/content/dam/hikvision/en/brochures-download/product-brochures/White-Paper_H.265-Plus-Brochure.pdf), seems like ffmpeg is extracting just the residual part  

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