Plex Windows Client Randomly Stutters Playback

Plex Windows Media Player randomly stutters playback, here’s what it looks like

Any and all help is much appreciated!

hardware decoding lmao

I have the same issue on the Xbox player on an Xbox Series X when playing H.265 media. After a few restarts it’s smooth on a lower quality (720p H.264 plex generated version) but I’d prefer to have the original files so that I don’t have to generate copies for everything.

I use hardware acceleration so it can’t be the same issue.