Are you talking about general issues, or specific to encoding/decoding with Intel?
Because I’ve had issues encoding/decoding after upgrading from Ubuntu 23.04 or thereabouts, but I’ve always blamed it on having a server motherboard that doesn’t provide ReBAR.
I definitely agree about Christmas. It’s secondary to Easter. Ash Wednesday is not even a holy day of obligation for Catholics, but the Octave of Christmas, January 1st is.