Hoshino Lina (ζδΉγͺγ) π©΅ 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!I've always wondered about the video clipping stuff on the Switch... 30 seconds is 1.2GB of raw video (720p30 8bit 4:2:0) so obviously it has to encode footage into H.264 in real time all the time to be able to keep the buffer in RAM to save a clip. I wonder how much battery that uses? I bet runtime would be perceivably better if you could turn it off...
Tim@lina Hmm. Maybe?
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7034337 paper describes a hardware h264 encoding taking 115-235mw
and nintendo https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch/tech-specs/ says it consumes ~4W (handheld ofc), so 235mw is about 5% of the battery usage, assuming those numbers.