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Yes, but my point was don't underestimate software decoders on modern mobile devices. As an experiment, I left a local 720p30 VP9 video with Opus audio running in a loop in VLC on my iPhone 7 for 3 hours. Both video and audio are being decoded in software.

My battery started at 90% and at the end of three hours it was at 55%. I think that's pretty good for software decoding.

I'm not sure which VP9 decoder VLC uses on iOS. I presume it's ffvp9:

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2014/02/22/the-worlds-fastes...



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