ok, so unchecking that made the HW transcoding work again.
Apparently now, I need to visit the support articles:
“Additional driver components may be needed to support hardware transcoding with this feature enabled; see our support articles for further details.”
EDIT: Ok, I see now that this was released in the previous update.
For people seeing this who run Intel for their HW transcoding and it stops working with this update, then this is the reference for you.
disregard the below:
Just curious, when did this feature get added? and why do I need to suddenly go back and retroactively update drivers?
For reference: I was able to play the same files this past weekend (without changing anything)
Then, earlier this week when trying to play the same files (without changing anything) I’m not able to play them.