Thanks I reverted back.
I had done most of those things in the
wiki before but I just went through and checked off a couple more things. Running as a service seems to be the biggest thing I need.
I was using the stable version before which is why I started to try the latest. My cpu is a 10th gen i5 so H.265 should have worked anyways with acceleration? I tried Intel + VPP, Intel, and finally none with H.264 but still crashed (though on the beta version). With no acceleration, CPU was 95-100% and now using Intel, it is back to 50-60%.