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Re:What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Act... by antoaravinth on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:45AM (#10122105)
Novice question, how does using "native" implementation rather than "Flash" reduces the wakeups calls?
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Re:What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Act... by code_sterling on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @11:08AM (#10123372)
My guess is that native HTML5 is just h.264, and most modern systems have a hardware decoder that would be much more efficient at decoding than a software implementation. Flash video is a wrapper around a number of codecs, and if the codec isn't h.264, then you're doing software decoding, which is far less efficient.
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