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Why can't you decode and encode on the same device at the same time? I thought you could do a couple in parallel (but haven't done so in a while)
Because one process will be running on the hardware, because of the way it works it can't really share that hardware between processes. I'm not sure if that's entirely a hardware limitation, but it seems to be enough of one that software hasn't overcome it.
What if that process had multiple streams to decode/encode?