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Video playback needs less hardware than you think. $35 Raspberry Pi's with a little ARM SoC can easily play 4k.
Really you're more limited by what codecs you plan to play and whether the iGPU supports hardware decode for them. For example, on the 2400ge you mentioned, the Vega 11 graphics core is built in GCN 5.0.. Looking at other specs sites, hoping they're accurate, show that Vega 11 supports hardware decode of most major video formats that you'd try to play.. If there's hardware support you'll have zero issues.
For any codecs not hardware supported you'll be CPU core limited, however, I think you'll find even Zen+ cores in an APU are capable of more than you think.
Thank you for the detailed explaination.