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If your users have multiple different devices which each have different codecs that they support it's easier to transcode the movie in real time into a format that their device supports than to keep multiple different copies of the media with different encodings.
Graphics cards can do this but a Pi can't.
Thanks, that's helpful!
The pi also can't accelerate most video codecs. If you have a HEVC HDR movie good luck getting more than 3fps transcoded if your device isn't capable of direct streaming it.