As we can see in many of these reports for years, people are saying that the same files are playing fine on the same machine with other players.
So it’s obviously not a driver or hardware issue.
Those who give you those answers have no ears, and even less brains!!!
THIS IS A CLEAR VLC BUG!!!
Which the development team either doesn’t know (sounds strange!), or deems it useless to solve, stop!
Once and for all, with the exact same H265/AAC file,
1. if SM-Player displays it without problems, and continues to do so after pause/play/pause/play
2. if MPC-BE/HC display it without problems, and continue to do so after pause/play/pause/play
3. if VLC 3.0.20, without HW-Acceleration OFF, displays it, and continues to do so after pause/play/pause/play
4. if VLC 3.0.20, with HW-Acceleration ON, displays it, but freezes video, with only audio playing, after pause/play/pause/play
Why, again, deny the evidence? 
Statistics: Posted by verbal_666 — 11 May 2024 12:35