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VLC can play HEVC main10. But 4K 60fps is not realistic at this point. This just won't work, at least not until hardware acceleration comes.

Tested both VLC 2.2.0 and VLC 3.0 on a Intel Haswell i5 and NVIDIA GTX650 with OpenGL 4.4. It works but it is just way too slow and lossy to be watchable. This is Linux, but that is probably not very relevant.

Works fine here, just very few frames due to lack of hardware acceleration.