YouTube/Flash/CD/DVD drain

[Peter Franks]

flash player is a battery killer, try the click to flash safari plugin, it works perfect for me. it can save you battery life when surfing and stuff

Really noticeable when you used it?
If Apple have this beef with Adobe maybe they should have installed it?

Yeah, hard to get youtube without wifi. The Wifi itself is not a big deal.

Video players vary a lot by efficiency, both the online (flash vs. html5 vs. other formats) and offline (VLC and others...).

Never knew about html5 before

Hi Peter. All of YouTube's videos are in H.264, well except really old videos uploaded in 2006. H.264 is used when viewing YouTube on the iPhone, remember how there's no Flash installed on iOS? ClickToFlash gives you access to those same H.264 videos.

You will not only save power but you will also skip advertisements because they don't work when playing the video in H.264. H.264 is natively supported by Safari and your Mac, Quicktime uses that codec and it's part of HTML5. HTML5 will always consume less power than Flash, it's a long story.

The HTML5 player in YouTube is not the same thing as ClickToFlash, that player is kind of clunky and ugly and last time I used it, there was no full-screen option!

Give ClickToFlash a try, it is awesome. It can also be found at Apple's website. Just scroll through the list.

Brilliant, never knew that either, I thought 'Click to Flash' and the likes was just to stop ads playing on a page you don't want, and could click as and when you wanted them, didn't realise it was a different 'battery saving' format as well, thought it still played Flash, in Flash, but less of it as there are always a thousand ads on a page with flash!

Yes, I have, a few times. It would be helpful if you would take the time to actually read it this time. If you do, you will have the answers to your questions.

For the purposes of the discussion in this thread, yes, they are all alike. The same principles hold true and the same care, use and troubleshooting applies to all Apple notebook batteries. Yours is not a unique case.

The drain on your battery is directly related to the settings you've chosen and the apps/widgets/processes you have running, just like everyone else's battery.

If you would actually read the link below, you would know that there are many factors that impact your battery life, including Flash on websites and other multimedia operations. See the BATTERY LIFE FROM A CHARGE section of the following link for details.

This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:

Apple Notebook Battery FAQ​

He loves me really, I did read that, obviously, ages ago, but, get this bit! It didn't make any difference to me whatsoever and nothing is running when I am on Flash, I quit every process, but I will download the click to flash and let all you lovely people know what difference it makes, not watch DVDs on here, and have brightness at | | | despite the fact that yesterday I couldn't actually see anything afterwards

One other thing, is there a sensor, because the bright/dim I swear doesn't stay on the three bars? Sure there is a sensor, but forgot where it turns off.. Ahh, edit, found, is it the 'automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes', and do you guys leave on or off? It's a bit annoying when it goes so dark you can barely see, so am guessing it's best off?

What happens to Flash that's installed when click to flash is installed, it prevents it, and will it play all types of flash, and if not, does the adobe flash kick in?

Thanks people, much appreciated

 

[thundersteele]

One other thing, is there a sensor, because the bright/dim I swear doesn't stay on the three bars? Sure there is a sensor, but forgot where it turns off.. Ahh, edit, found, is it the 'automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes', and do you guys leave on or off? It's a bit annoying when it goes so dark you can barely see, so am guessing it's best off?

I have it enabled for the keyboard backlight, but disabled for the display brightness.

What happens to Flash that's installed when click to flash is installed, it prevents it, and will it play all types of flash, and if not, does the adobe flash kick in?

I think it makes videos play in html5 format... at least those for which this is possible.

 

[Peter Franks]

I have it enabled for the keyboard backlight, but disabled for the display brightness.


I think it makes videos play in html5 format... at least those for which this is possible.

Thank you!
I have the keys light off all the time now, don't really need it

 

[bill-p]

It'll still pull Flash out for most non-Youtube contents. Plus ClickToFlash has some... unforgivable glitches with Safari on Lion.

I think Flash is a curse that Mac users have to live with.

 

[Peter Franks]

Not gone Lion yet.... Like I've always said, It took me forever to get used to SL.

One final question... I get the Flash/DVD player battery use, but why does an AVI being watched in Quicktime, also take the battery percentage down by 1% every 1-2 minutes, What is it that it uses that also kills it?

 

[bill-p]

As far as I know, AVI uses the CPU to decode most of the time (depending on the codec), so when the CPU is stressed, it sucks up power.

On the 13" MBP, the CPU is the most guilty offender if you have battery drain. Unfortunately, since you have the i5, I can't really say "Coolbook", but with the Core 2 Duo MBP 13", one could use Coolbook to reduce voltage and frequency of the CPU to save battery life.

 

[Peter Franks]

Thanks for that. Looks like I need to be near a power point for the most part...

 

[takeshi74]

The drain on your battery is directly related to the settings you've chosen and the apps/widgets/processes you have running, just like everyone else's battery.

Bah! It's far easier to blame the equipment. I mean, my car gets terrible gas mileage (manufacturer's MPG claims are all lies!) when I leadfoot it. Obviously, the manufacturer messed up and should have included a larger gas tank but without affecting passenger space, cargo capacity or anything else...