Ubuntu 18.04.
Until the weekend I was hardware limited in regards to watching 4K, HDR movies so I upgraded my system to a Ryzon 5 2600K CPU (8 Gigs RAM) and a Nvidia 1050 graphics card which I use with VLC. The upgrade has some improvement over my old 6 year old CPU and no video card but falls short of good smooth viewing. As a test I watched Battleship last night and has 2 instances where the movie frooze for perhaps 2 or 3 seconds and many instances where the playback was slow without stopping. Voice synchronation was off about 200 ms but corrected through VLC with no further adjustment, it is possible this may have occurred when I transferred the BD to mkv.
Some Googling has led me to believe that VLC may be the problem, especially with mkv movies, although it's not clear to me if that is really the case. So my question is, what is the best movie player for mkv UHD movies for Ubuntu? Secondly, is my new hardware a likely culprit.
Thanks.
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