Comment by wrv

A Rust decoder was something discussed at the start, which is why we chose the language. As research goes, we primarily focused on just the H.264 syntax elements.

The Chromium folks are working on a Rust crate called cros-codecs [1] for VP8, VP9, and H.264 parameter set parsing, with VAAPI as a back-end.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/+/42bdf1de57...