Does a youtube video with a still image (ex. music) drain as much mobile data as a moving video (gameplay, etc.), and why/why not?

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Does a youtube video with a still image (ex. music) drain as much mobile data as a moving video (gameplay, etc.), and why/why not?

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Imagine you were giving a computer instructions on how to play the video. You can tell each individual pixel what color to be, and repeat that process 30 times every second. But if it is just a still image, you would only have to do that once, and just tell the pixels to stay the color they are for the rest of the video, and that would greatly reduce the list of instructions you would need to send.

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