According to the post link above, they’re updating ffmpeg to a version that includes NVDEC. Since NVDEC and VAAPI have both been included in ffmpeg for some time now, it could be speculated that the version they’re updating to might also include other decode support for the very reasons you list. I’m not disagreeing some transparency would be nice.
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