Comment 29 for bug 1424201

(In reply to Tony Houghton from comment #15)

> I really can't agree that we're better off with software-only ffmpeg and
> that you shouldn't make every effort with GPU decoding. I've experienced

What I said was that you're better of using ffmpeg over gstreamer with the vaapi plugin
Memory bandwidth with 4K quickly becomes the bottleneck. On windows in a current work in progress simply removing a single frame copy sped up the decoding frame rate by 6%; this is huge.

At not time did I state that we didn't want to do full GPU acceleration.

Just that things aren't trivial as what you appear to think. Why do you think chrome dropped it entirely very recently?
If it was that easy and worked well, it would be done already.