H265 videos won't play in totem after installing all codecs

[coalrock8642]

Does not work (Me, AMD A6-9225)

Codec (no longer) supported?

After the latest system update, I can no longer play .mkv files in VLC media player. I just get the following error: Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format “hevc” (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265)) In the years I’ve used VLC, I’ve never seen this before. What’s odd is that the audio for mkv files does work, just no video, and the error message. Other posts don’t have much of a solution and the only advice I get is to install libde265, but the instructions are usually for Ubuntu user…