Does video quality hurt iphone battery life?

[BKLounger]

I couldn't find a clear answer so i just wanted to throw this out there. Does the quality of the video you play affect your iphone battery life?

Like if you encoded a video at high levels vs. low levels.

 

[Injury]

It shouldn't. The thing that probably kills the most battery life isn't the processes of decoding the video but the screen itself, and either way the pixels are being used.