Sure, but it kind of sounds like the 5 will still be a superior solution, even without hardware support: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/...

Obviously, it would need benchmarks, but taking that post at its word, the 5 can transcode twice as fast in software as the 4b could do in hardware.

That doesn't mean some other hardware platform wouldn't be drastically better, I just don't get the extreme reaction about the 5 when compared to the 4.