From what I can tell this will be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration, for that matter I'm not sure that software decoding will be supported at all.

From what I can tell this will be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration, for that matter I'm not sure that software decoding will be supported at all. The novel point here is the stateless part. Relevant reading: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-stateless-decoder.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/v...