Something I've been wondering lately, watching FPGAs become more accessible: How hard would it be to implement new codecs (ex. AV1) on a FPGA, and thereby get support for new codecs in "hardware" by buying such a card once, plugging it in, and then reflashing it when new (FOSS) codecs come out? Especially since some of these cards at least claim to support being left inside a laptop. I assume there's some work to implement the codec in verilog (or whatever they use these days), and some effort to pass the audio/video streams to the card and then back to the system for output, but I have no idea how terrible that is; somewhere between "it would take a team of engineers years" and "download these 2 existing FOSS components and run `make install`" I assume:)