Why was Android hardware decoding removed?

[peepeep]

My understanding is they’re still working on improving the video performance for older and/or less powerful devices within the environment of the required “new library.” The 2.5.36 app update restores performance for some affected devices, improves it for others, and does nothing for the unlucky few.

From seven days ago:

@gemniii

I was told since hardware acceleration didn’t affect a lot of users they were not going to try and bring it back.

Which suggests it is a component that could be integrated with the “new library” if demand and available resources warranted it.

This is the only direct reference to the issue I found in the 2.6 beta app thread:

@TheNerdCorner

But if this has anything to do with the hardware decoder being taken out, I may have to roll back to when it was available. I don’t want to have to take out my SD card and put it into my computer each time I need to scrub through the timeline for a video that i want to see.