The author needs to provide way more information about the app configurations for me to accept those results as valid. None of my quick testing is particularly rigorous, but in the absence of more information, I'm fine with calling shenanigans on that PC World test. And anyway, the experience overall for me in Movies & TV is worse since no audio. BUT.I get no audio.since it's not even attempting to decode the audio stream(whereas MPC-HC handles the audio fine), I don't think that 0.5% is unaccounted for. When I play it back with the Movies and TV app, the same file is coming in maybe 0.5% lower then MPC-HC for me. Now, if I disable all the hardware accelerated playback, then I can get it to go between 5-10%. I can't get my i5 to go over 2% CPU, and mostly it's at around 1.5%. I use MPC-HC as my player, and I have DXVA2 native mode hardware accelerated playback enabled. Just for giggles, I just now tried playing back a 1920x800 H.264 video.

The fact that he didn't actually address what any of the settings for the video players are, makes me highly suspect of the test. It's the only explanation that makes sense for everything else to have that much worse battery life. In the absence of the author telling use the settings, my assumption is that he did not have VLC or MPC-HC or anything else configured to perform hardware accelerated video playback. I wonder maybe this thread belongs in AVClub.īut I bet everyone will be highly skeptical of that article just like me. mkv files on estimated remaining battery life.

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