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2012-10-19 , 22:30
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#6
Originally Posted by wolke View Post
playing videos where the size in pixels of the images displayed exceeds the size in pixels of the screen is a waste of computation.

the CPU or GPU needs to spend valuable time {and battery life} downscaling each image to fit in the viewing window.
For many people these days, their time is more valuable than that of the phone CPU/GPU. Not many want to spend time re-encoding their video collection (plus storing two copies of the same video) for use on their phone.

Originally Posted by wolke View Post
the n9 can comfortably play the highest quality video that the screen can possibly show. i seen em!
Not always. It depends on the codec.
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