diff --git a/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix b/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
index 9fb7ec2..2feca9d 100644
--- a/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
+++ b/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
   hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware = true;
   hardware.facetimehd.enable = true;
 
+  # VA-API hardware video decode. iHD covers Broadwell/gen8+ (2014-2015),
+  # i965 covers Haswell/gen7.5 (2013); libva picks whichever the GPU is.
+  hardware.graphics.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+    intel-media-driver
+    intel-vaapi-driver
+  ];
+
   # Pin to the 6.12 LTS kernel: the out-of-tree broadcom_sta (Wi-Fi) and
   # facetimehd (iSight) modules don't build against linuxPackages_latest
   # (7.x) — broadcom-sta's wl_cfg80211 ops no longer match the cfg80211 API.