Indeed, this type of HW allow decoding an unlimited number of streams (to a certain extend it won't be real time, but will still work until you ran out of RAM).

Indeed, this type of HW allow decoding an unlimited number of streams (to a certain extend it won't be real time, but will still work until you ran out of RAM). Also suspended streams don't use any resources in some firmware that would prevent other streams to decode in HW.