Yep, Pi2 was totally OK as a video playback machine unless you were trying to play H.265/HEVC files, in which case it'd struggle with them over SD resolutions.

Yep, Pi2 was totally OK as a video playback machine unless you were trying to play H.265/HEVC files, in which case it'd struggle with them over SD resolutions. Pi4 adds hardware decoding for that so now it's fine.