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But if I understand you correctly, only the player, not Windows entirely?

Yes, only the player app, Windows remains stable. Still very annoying.

I mean... have you tried another video player?

Yes, they all crash, which is why I suspect the video card. I could disable hardware decoding, but H.265 is pretty heavy on the CPU.

How old is your CPU? Age can be factor of it, it is possible that it didn't have the hardware to support it. I disabled the GPU acceleration in my player and put the CPU to work, it handles the HEVC 10-bits just fine floating around 20% of usage for this video (Intel Core i7-8559U).

If you said it is pretty heavy on the CPU, then it could be your CPU that is causing the issue.

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