VLC – How to Reduce Battery Consumption

If you use VLC as a primary media player for your Windows 10 machine, by default it will use hardware acceleration to give you more battery life. But what is hardware acceleration exactly? Do know that there are several ways to play back a video, and one of them is through software decoding. This is when the video player will read the video file and then decode the information using the computer’s processor or CPU. If the CPU isn’t up to snuff, then it might make the computer work even harder, and thus shorten the battery life. With hardware acceleration,
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