Honestly it's a little staggering how much better web video got after the W3C got fed up with Flash and RealPlayer and finally implemented some more efficient video and native video player standards.
<video> was a revolution.
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Is that good or bad? What cpu? How big is the screen? What encoding?
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It fluctuated between 8.8W and 10.3W.
Your entire backlight is only 3w? I feel like my phone is over 3w.
Me with an older notebook that doesn't support av1 decoding: π
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Obligatory: "Use Debian instead of Ubuntu. It's basically Ubuntu without Snap."
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What command do you use to see the Watt used?
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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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What cpu architecture is this?
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That's very good, audio could do with some work
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My phone uses like 30 on idle π«
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.
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