On H265/HEVC as a Viable Alternative to H264

x265 is godly

Useful information. I have a question though, when I play H265 encoded video it runs fine and the same video lags in my friendā€™s laptop. What causes this to happen? Thereā€™s definitely something that is not supporting this.

Iā€™m going to guess with at least a little certainty that itā€™s hardware vs software decoding.

I suggested him PotPlayer that offered H/W and S/W on front, both didnā€™t work for him.