Trouble playing HEVC files (and some mkv, mp4 files) in VLC 3.0.14

[jerryskids]

I've used this VLC version for many years and I love it. But I have trouble playing HEVC (H.265) files. They hesitate and stop when I play them.
I googled how to troubleshoot this at (https://www.free-codecs.com/guides/play ... ayback.htm).
I tried all of the options it lists in VLC Tools->Preferences->Input/Codecs and none of them work.

Some of my mkv and mp4 files in VLC do exactly the same thing (hesitate).

How do I get these files to play?

[Lotesdelere]

Version 3.0.14 is a bit old, you should update to latest VLC version, v3.0.20 as of today.

[jerryskids]

Someone in another forum told me that my CPU or GPU might not be strong enough to play the files. My CPU is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10600K CPU @ 4.10GHz 4.10 GHz. I don't think it's my CPU and I'm using Windows 10.

[Lotesdelere]

Have you tried with VLC v3.0.20 ?
And what is your graphics card ?

[InTheWings]

see https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/28513

try Nightly Build of VLC