Mine told me "Oo ee uu ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang." I paid him and left not understanding a word. When I went looking for her, I found she had moved away to Greece. Four months later she died of typhus in Corfu. Life after that was... Well, I could fill a whole book on it.
Sometimes, I wonder if that witch doctor was putting a curse on us and that everything that happened afterwards was his fault.
Install hardware codecs for this type of videos. Every laptop made past 2011 should have hardware accelerated H264 content, generally up to 2000x2000 resolution at least.
https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases Or use PotPlayer, which has IMO the best out of box support for various types of videos.