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I have a MSI laptop with Intel i7-4710HQ CPU , and 16GB RAM.
Its running on Windows10 and have VLC 3-0.18
When i try to play Gopro 5K mp4 videos, VLC starts up and play, but the picture freezes after a few seconds. Why?
(When I use Windows media player, it the movies plays like normal, so files are not corrupt).

Read this guide:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=156428

If it doesn't help then open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

Also upload a short sample of your original problematic file to WeTransfer.com or Disroot.org and then post the link to the file here.
https://wetransfer.com
https://upload.disroot.org