Yeah, I just pacman-installed mpv and tried running it on a 4k video. My CPU fan immediately kicked on, and top showed multiple cores getting involved. Kept scr

Yeah, I just pacman-installed mpv and tried running it on a 4k video. My CPU fan immediately kicked on, and top showed multiple cores getting involved. Kept scrolling this HN post to learn about hwdec=auto. Coming from mplayer and vlc my immediate question is, "What tradeoffs are the maintainers trying to make by not making this the default?"