My 1.17 MB player now listens to the battery: thermal-aware decode + a metered-data mode

<p>i've been building a small 4K media player client for Android + Windows (RKMovies), and two complaints kept showing up in my own testing: on budget phones, long 4K sessions make the back of the phone uncomfortably warm, and on metered connections the player can chew through a daily data quota. both felt like "just use the hardware decoder" problems at first. they weren't.</p> <h2> the thermal p

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