The Tegra X1 SoC featured in Nintendo’s Switch was meant to fill a variety of market segments including Android set top boxes and automotive applications. Hardware video encode and decode are vital to all of those use cases. Tegra X1’s video engine can handle encode and decode for both H264 and HEVC. It’s quite different from desktop Maxwell’s video engine. On one hand, hardware HEVC decode is great to see. Desktop Maxwell supported HEVC encode, but curiously had no HEVC decode support. A Ninten...