Abstract: Adaptive power management within media delivery system. Power management is performed for one or more devices within a media or signal delivery system. Depending upon one or more local and/or remote considerations associated with one or more of the devices within the system, various processing operations may undergo appropriate provisioning among the respective devices. Considering devices that are battery-powered, certain processing operations that may be highly power or energy consumptive may be offloaded to other devices having sufficient power or energy to effectuate such operations or that are not so limited or constrained by power energy (e.g., being wall powered or non-battery-powered). Operation of one or more of the devices in compliance with a power or energy constraint may be directed by a power management application resident on one or more of the devices within the system.