Can ffmpeg leverage iphone's hardware enocder/decoder? Not talking about gpu acceleration which ffmpeg can already acheive. We all know that apple's VideoToolBox leverages iphone's hardware codec.
Yes, FFmpeg hwaccel can use a VideoToolbox hardware decoder, and hardware encoders are supported too. Check the FFmpeg documentation.
@ galad87 from this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/ezv1kf/what_does_ioss_hardware_acceleration_for_video/ , we came to know that "The hardware decoders are custom decoder capabilities on the GPU, and they are handled exclusively by the GPU". Is it true or hardware decoder is an exclusive hardware apart from GPU?
