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DaleCurtis | 6 months ago

Unfortunately canvas (rgb'ish) can't overlay as efficiently as <video> (yuv'ish), so there is some power cost relative to the lowest power video overlays.

It really only matters in long form content where nothing else on the page is changing though.

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chrismorgan|6 months ago

> It really only matters in long form content where nothing else on the page is changing though.

Did you not just describe at least 99% of all web video?

DaleCurtis|6 months ago

If only that were true, battery usage would be much better :) Just consider the prominence of content like tiktoks/shorts/reels/etc alone.