I am using VLC 3.0.10 64bit on Windows 10 1909 with a laptop Intel i7-6600U (Intel HD 520 graphics).
I have no trouble playing H264, Xvid or WMV files with standrad settings. With H265 (HEVC) files it freezes after about 20 secondes. I have to disable hardware decoding to solve it. MPC-BE plays the files fine with DXVA-HD enabled for both resizer and downscaling.
Details of the type of file are below.
Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L4@High
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 42 min 20 s
Bit rate : 777 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.035
Stream size : 235 MiB (93%)
Writing library : x265 3.2+5-gfbe9fef31:[Windows][GCC 9.2.0][64 bit] 10bit