VLC does not support the audio or video format "hevc"

This morning when i try to open a movie file with VLC on lubuntu, i got an error saying that audio or video format not supported, here's the error message:

No suitable decoder module:

VLC does not support the audio or video format "hevc". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

It seems that VLC is missing codec for hevc video format, so the solution for this issue is to install hevc codec, we can install this codec from ppa repository.

How to install HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) on Lubuntu

• open command line/terminal
• add ppa repo for hevc codec

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265

• run update command

sudo apt-get update

• install the codec/plugin

sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265

That's should fix the issue, go ahead open again VLC and playback the movie, this time should  be working.