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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I've seen 10-12W easily on 4K for soc without av1. your soc (intel 11 gen) should support av1. try to play the video on mpv (with yt-dlp integration) with various hw acceleration options to see if it changes. probably your browser is software decoding.

for hardware decoding supported soc too I noticed 2-3W of extra power usage when playing youtube from website compared to mpv or freetube. the website seems doing inefficient js stuffs but I haven't profiled it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Av1 will probably increase power usage. It's made to reduce data consumption

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    on mobile platforms nowadays power is more important than data. OTOH for servers bandwidth is more important.

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