Much newer GCC & Media players. X265 support!

x265 has left the experimental stage and will be mainstream for all kinds of things soon -- long before this next release expires, and long before 17.X expires LTS. As it stands now, there is no media support for x265 in Mint. To get it one needs to install either Kodi from outside of the respository or upgrade GCC to a much newer 5+ version just to even compile a new enough version of VLC to tackle this. By 2017 this issue is going to be like not having mp3 support in 2000. When people discover there is no easy upgrade path (is it reasonable to expect someone new to linux to have to compile gcc and compile a media player right out of the bat? Make 50 symllinks, and everything else that needs to be done...) to get more than audio for x265 this is going to be a major turn off to new users who have already had that functionality for a considerable length of time in windows. The support exists in Linux, but only with a much newer code base. Please move to a much newer GCC and VLC at a minimum so we have some way to have this functionality. Just having a newer VLC would help, but a newer GCC is really needed along with it due to the way this is distributed at the moment One of the strengths of this distribution has been easy of media support, but that requires some things closer to the cutting edge to keep.