What or visual symptom (stuttering, black screen, frozen frames) occurs?

Sometimes you need an H.265 MKV file in a more widely compatible format like MP4.

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Sometimes the issue isn't the video; it's the container. The MKV might have a damaged header or a weird audio codec.

: H.265 playback is smoothest on devices with dedicated hardware decoding, such as: Intel 6th Gen (Skylake) CPUs or newer. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950/960 or newer.