[grozzle]

By VPU, I meant the square on the board that eats h.265 hw_enc and hw_dec and things like that, yes. I've been told it's a separate square from the GPU, by someone who is full-time waist-deep on getting Arch running on that hardware, so I take it as fact.

Oh no. The prospect of gstreamer being the only way... Oh no.

Maybe there's a zsh plugin or smth that autocompletes sane defaults? AAAAAAAAHHHHHH there surely isn't, anyone merciful enough to make one would just use ffmpeg instead...