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0 pointsnl3y ago0 comments

This isn't true.

Smartwatches have had full HD h.264 and 720p h.265 hardware decode since at least 2014.

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They do, but how many viewing hours do you get from a single battery charge?

nlOP3y ago

The decoding is probably in the same order of magnitude as listening to music from your watch.

The screen brightness is the limiting factor. Based on always-on displays on the Apple Watch you are probably looking at 8 hours or so?

So decoding with the screen on might be 5 hours?

The always-on display drops power usage by being quite dim and reducing the update frequency to 1 Hz. 24-60 Hz video will draw way more power

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