Linked by Brooss on Tue 15th Mar 2011 23:32 UTC Thread beginning
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since:  What he said, except I don't believe in H264-encoding
DSPs which have no battery drain. There's nothing magical about
DSPs, it's just a processor on the inside, eating battery power
to provide computational power. The miserable battery life of
current smartphones shows well enough that hardware acceleration
is no panacea as far as battery life is concerned. For that, we
need computational efficiency, instead of more computational
power.  "No battery drain" is a myth.  Power drain was measured
for the Anthill WebM hardware encoder and the results shown
here:  It was measured at 12 milliwatts compared with between
1025 and 3459 milliwatts for different software releases.
Perhaps about 1% of the power drain would be a better estimate
than "no power drain".  Edited 2011-03-16 11:10 UTC  Reply
Parent Score: 2  Neolander Member since:  I wonder about their
measurement methodology.