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by lossolo 1043 days ago
> Introduces a decryption step, which is slow

It's not slow, after you decrypt the AES key, then you are using hardware AES instruction set supported by most CPUs currently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set

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Relatively speaking. You might not notice it when playing back a single video, but I promise you that you're not going to have a good time if you try to play back multiple high bitrate videos on slightly older hardware (think HTPC).
> Relatively speaking. You might not notice it when playing back a single video

So like 99.99% of use cases?

> but I promise you that you're not going to have a good time if you try to play back multiple high bitrate videos on slightly older hardware (think HTPC).

That could be the case, not disagreeing here, if you use old hardware, have multiple high bitrate videos and multiple streams at once but this is specialized niche example.