Aldrik

H.264 is likely not supported (not just because it's inferior but also) due the additional license fee it would require. You guys really need to start pointing the finger at the companies that make your editors that still don't support HVEC. It's a well know standard everyone knew was coming and has been ready to implement for over a year and a half. Supporting it in this camera is a great feature and not a fault on Samsung's side.

VLC Player does open the HVEC files on my Mac but won't play past 2 seconds without corruption and freezing.

Make sure to file a bug report.

Thanks for this and every your do here Andrew, I'm a big fan. Eagerly await the continued review, this looks like the camera I've been waiting for. :)

There is no way I am going to transcode h265 files first to be able to VIEW the clips

There's no need, plenty of video players have support for HEVC (at lease anything mplayer or VLC based).