I've got a couple long flights coming up on which I'd like to use my TB as a video player. Based on a few past experiences, I was afraid that video playback would kill the battery long before I reached my destination.
I tried a couple tests with my phone in airplane mode that consisted of playing a 21-minute, 174mb AVI file with QQ Player and Rock Player.
Under QQ Player, the battery dropped 9% which translates to 2.3 minutes of video playback per 1% of battery.
Someone reported that Rock Player's custom builds for different processors with support for GPU decoding dramatically reduces power consumption, so I downloaded the ARM7 build of Rock Player from the developer's website, enabled hardware decoding in the settings, and played the same AVI. The battery dropped only 6% (3.5 minutes per 1% of battery). I then tried a 701mb, 59-minute AVI which dropped battery by 15% (3.9 minutes/1%).
I think that's close to getting me through my flights, but are there any other video players or configuration settings I should try to reduce power consumption during video playback?
I tried a couple tests with my phone in airplane mode that consisted of playing a 21-minute, 174mb AVI file with QQ Player and Rock Player.
Under QQ Player, the battery dropped 9% which translates to 2.3 minutes of video playback per 1% of battery.
Someone reported that Rock Player's custom builds for different processors with support for GPU decoding dramatically reduces power consumption, so I downloaded the ARM7 build of Rock Player from the developer's website, enabled hardware decoding in the settings, and played the same AVI. The battery dropped only 6% (3.5 minutes per 1% of battery). I then tried a 701mb, 59-minute AVI which dropped battery by 15% (3.9 minutes/1%).
I think that's close to getting me through my flights, but are there any other video players or configuration settings I should try to reduce power consumption during video playback?