Then waiting to see how they addressed these points and what were the approaches taken and why ?

Here spent time to think and document all the IRC chats, the Twitter thread, the attitude of the SoC manufacturer, etc.

There has to be a backstory to suddenly come after 1.5 years for an issue that could have been solved in 10 minutes.

Then why didn't Rockchip solve it in 10 minutes?

	▲	rvnx 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bad decision and risk/reward calculation for sure. If it's code that is core to your stuff, and it is GPL'd, it's (technically) very tricky to solve. But here, as FFmpeg is LGPL and we talk about one single file, there is even less work to do in order to fix that.