You can run OpenCV on a GPU-less Raspberry Pi or other IoT device just fine.

And most IoT devices aren't doing video transcoding at all. You're making some very odd assertions in this thread.

>And most IoT devices aren't doing video transcoding at all.

The data gets streamed to the cloud where servers with GPUs transcode it. I'm pointing out that IoT devices historically have reached out to servers with GPUs even before GenAI.

Most IoT devices have no camera and communicate with servers that have no need for a GPU at all.