Luckily video codecs also hardly change in an incompatible way after they ship. There's also varying levels of support that can be fully or partially HW decode/

Luckily video codecs also hardly change in an incompatible way after they ship. There's also varying levels of support that can be fully or partially HW decode/encoded and the pure CPU fallback. Intel's Quicksync is best-in-class and even available on low power Celeron/Atoms