I’ve observed this in many phones over the years, and it seems like videos in low light take more space than those with more light. One would think that due to the detail loss in the low light, the videos would take less space. Why isn’t that the case?
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The only reason I can think of is artifacting combined with a variable framerate. Visual noise in low light conditions act similar to any snow effect, which takes more space to encode. Normally, if the encoding has a set bitrate, the quality would just drop to compensate. But if the bitrate is variable, it would shoot up and create a larger file due to needing more data to encode the noise.
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