P: Support hardware video decoding of new formats in playback

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I agree that LR's support of video were better. But video has been LR's stepchild since it was introduced in LR 4.  

Over the years, LR video playback has often stuttered or been choppy on my higher-end laptops, so stopped trying to use LR to play it. Instead, I open the video in my favorite video app. An easy way to do that:

Select the video in Library and click the right-arrow next to the File Path field:

(Use LR 11's nifty new customization of Metadata panels to put that field in a convenient spot.) That will open File Explorer or Finder with the video selected. Double-click it to open the default video player.

Alternatively, use the Any File plugin's Open command to do the same thing with a single keystroke.