My Nexus Player can't play the movie I downloaded

Question

So I told my friends to come over to my new place and watch Unbreakable before we see Glass this weekend, and I found a Mega link to download it. I connected my account to X-plore File Manager and opened it with VLC, but the video froze less than a minute in while the audio continued playing. I thought the problem was that I was streaming it, so I copied the file to the Movies folder in internal storage. But that didn't fix the issue. Please help me solve this before I disappoint my friends.

Ekos640 · Accepted Answer

just rent it on google play movies - it's only $3

blurance · Answer

Too late you're already a disappoinment to your friends, family, and society.

paintmekev · Answer

Encoding problem. Is is x264 x265? I'd just get a new file.

tombunyon0 · Answer

Open it in Kodi.

elister · Answer

I have found that the original nexus player does not handle H265/HVEC videos period, audio plays, but no video.  MiBox or nVidia shield shouldn't have an issue, just the Nexus Player.