The title doesn't seem to match the content. The comments are talking about hardware accelerated encode but I didn't see anything about accelerated decode being dropped.
"JPEG and H264 encode and decode is now in software"
> But it only uses 50% of the processors to do 1080p60 on YouTube"
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/...
So no encoders and no h.264 decoder.
> BCM2712 supports HEVC 4K60 hardware decoding. It no longer supports H264 in hardware. This might sound odd but it removes the RPi4’s 1080p restriction on H264 decoding and the 4K H264 test media we have has played. The big increase in performance from the Quad-Core A76 chip means RPi5 can software decode AV1, H264, VC1, VP9, and more at 1080p with ease