Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Yes it is possible that even though HW is selected the player will fallback to software decoding as a hardware decoder cannot be found or is blacklisted due to performance issues. Vimu may be providing their own driver for the hardware decoding or could be using one of the blacklisted decoders, we can investigate here to see if HEVC files are being decoded using a software decoder.
As I think about it, this would also explain why the FireTV box with its beefier CPU presents the same problem with BD Rips but not nearly to the extreme that I see on the sticks.