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No, because the primary use case was where the video was encrypted and you would have to unencrypt it to pass to the hardware acceleration.

This broadly went away when graphics cards started integrating PlayReady in the chipset, though we did eventually power through it for software encrypted video like EME protected videos in Chrome for Windows.



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