I don’t think YouTube cares if you use hardware of software decoding. I also don’t think they care if you use their hardware decoder or someone else’s. The issu

I don’t think YouTube cares if you use hardware of software decoding. I also don’t think they care if you use their hardware decoder or someone else’s. The issue with roku is they don’t want to include any extra hardware to support vp9, and they use such cheap/low spec hardware they can’t reliably decode in software.