Is that good or bad? What cpu? How big is the screen? What encoding?
It’s a Framework with 11th gen Intel i5. I’ve never seen it below 11W while doing this. I don’t recall the exact number I got in Debian 12 but I think it was in the 11-13W range. The numbers were similar with Ubuntu LTS which I used till about a year ago. Now I see 9-10W. The screen is 3:2 13". Not sure about the enconding but I have GPU decoding working in Firefox.
It fluctuated between 8.8W and 10.3W.
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.
Av1 will probably increase power usage. It’s made to reduce data consumption
on mobile platforms nowadays power is more important than data. OTOH for servers bandwidth is more important.
Yeah. But who builds the apps? The guys running the servers or the final end users?
ofc
What command do you use to see the Watt used?
Powertop
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and don’t forget the calibration before use
My phone uses like 30 on idle 🫠
That is very impressive! Although to be honest I question the accuracy of all those estimated power draws. I would be interested to see an endurance test of your battery- assuming your battery capacity is accurate, your runtime on a full charge should line up with your power draw.
