Kdenlive does not want to render AMD VAAPI (mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen)

[Zesko]

It does not have the ability h264 and h265 in the official repo by default.

See:

Upstream mesa removal of AVC/HEVC/VC-1 hardware acceleration (AMD GPUs)

Mesa is now maintained by Manjaro and won’t ship with patent encumbered codecs . Do I see this right, that it is not worth to install manjaro on my freshly ordered amd thinkpad ?