Pause autoplaying muted video by attribute when invisible (Android)

As a muted video with autoplay attribute only starts playing when it's becoming visible, it's reasonable to pause them when invisible to reduce power usage.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/muted-autoplay/index.html

Documentation

• https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/2324

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for Android release 58

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: No signals

Owners

• zqzhang@chromium.org
• mlamouri@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14