High Efficiency Video Coder (HEVC) will become a new MPEG International Standard by the end of 2012. HEVC is targeted to provide the same quality as H.264 at about a half of the bit-rate and will replace soon to its predecessor in multimedia consumer applications. In this paper, a preliminary implementation of an HEVC video decoder based on a DSP is presented and compared with a formerly developed H.264 DSP-based decoder