How to optimize battery in windows 10 to watch movies or series

It happens and it turns out that Windows 10 has a very interesting option to conserve the battery of our laptop when playing HDR (High-dynamic-rang) videos. This option for battery saving has not been promoted too much and is somewhat hidden within the Settings panel. In the following paragraphs we will see how to customize this option.

Optimize battery in Windows 10 when playing HDR videos

The HDR technique is a technology that improves the luminosity of the image using photographic techniques, there are different TVs or monitors that already allow viewing this type of images and also videos that make use of them. It turns out that playing HDR videos requires more computing power from the computer, which directly affects the battery life.

Windows 10 allows HDR videos to be played back as standard SDR and thus does not consume as much battery. Let's see how to do it.

1. We open Settings. We go to System - Battery. On the right, we look for the More Savings Options category. In the "When watching movies and videos on battery power" section, select one of the following values.

We detail what each of them means:

• Optimize battery life: Windows 10 will play all HDR movies as standard SDR videos. Optimize video quality: Windows 10 will preserve image quality.

This option can also be set in the old Power Options, within the Control Panel.

1. Within Energy Options we are going to choose the energy plan that we have configured at that moment by choosing the option Change the plan configuration. We open Change advanced energy configuration. The following window will open, we will have to open the Multimedia Configuration tree and In When playing videos, the two options that interest us are: Optimize video quality that will conserve HDR or Optimize energy saving so that HDR videos play as SDR.

That's all folks, I hope you find it useful and see you next time.

Source: winaero