[TRACKING] Linux battery life tuning

[eng_knight]

@Linen

I got this to work with Fedora 35 with Chrome, it does help some, thought it seems some but not all video vendors use codecs that Chrome supports.

See my post below.

[RESPONDED] Video decoding acceleration in Linux

So I noticed deplorable battery life watching youtube et al in browser. Went down the rabbit hole to figure out why. It occurred to me that hardware video decoding (intel quick sync) should be working, which should save precious battery. With standard intel device drivers I proved that hardware video acceleration works with vlc and intel-gpu-tools (using intel_gpu_top, quick sync isnt working if there is nothing under video% ). Curiously, neither Firefox or Chrome have working hardware video ac…