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  • no graphics card whatsoever

    computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.

    Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.

    Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

    Most of the answers seem to focus on the main problem, but your question got me thinking.
    Since you are not getting shutdowns with lower qualities, maybe you could use RAM to play those videos.
    Set up tmpfs. Before you start all the other things, use ffmpeg to recode the video to something without any compression, maybe tell it to not work too fast (like work on one frame at a time), and put the thing on that tmpfs. Maybe then playing this new file would be less demanding. The key would be to not force it to provide 30fps of encoded video

    Although… Are you sure all this RAM is fine? Maybe it shuts down on more demanding videos because with those the RAM usage raises to the faulty part?