Method for managing the electricity consumption of an electronic device

A processing device capable of processing multimedia content, the device including:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor configure the device to perform acts comprising:
• for receiving a request for processing a multimedia content;
• analysing the request in order to extract from the request at least one rendering quality of said content;
• obtaining a power supply state of the device;
• checking the match between said at least one quality of the content and the power supply state of the device;
• modifying the rendering quality for said content on the basis of the results of the check;
• and
• processing the multimedia content in order to render the multimedia content in said quality.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a computer program stored thereon comprising code instructions for implementing a method of managing electricity consumption of a device for processing multimedia content, when the implementation is executed by a processor of the device, the device having a type of power supply, said method comprising the following acts executed on the processing device:

• receiving a request for processing a multimedia content, said request comprising a rendering quality of said content;
• modifying the rendering quality for said content when said requested rendering quality does not match the type of power supply of the device;
• and
• processing the multimedia content in order to render the multimedia content in said quality.