From: Mihai Popescu <mihscu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Chromium VAAPI support
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 11:14:09 +0300

Some people are really disappointed with VAAPI stuff and companion
VDPAU that they say it is better to avoid them all together and stay
on software side.
Complaints say the implementation is fixed in hardware thus not
flexible, and the drivers are really buggy and not maintained, so
anything based on them is rather not qualitative or breaks badly. Some
are obsolete already, since codecs change so often.

I'm not a codecs expert, just reading what others say about this when
dealing with various implementations.