Codec For Vlc Exclusive |verified| | Install Hevc

Installing this allows VLC to "handoff" the heavy lifting of H.265 files to your graphics card rather than melting your CPU.

sudo pacman -S vlc ffmpeg

In same preference pane: → Video codecs → FFmpeg → set “Threads” to 1 (avoids decoder crashes with 10-bit HEVC). install hevc codec for vlc exclusive