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OS: All
Pri: 2
Type: Bug

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issue 658313



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Autoplay videos without an audio track regardless of their muted state

Project Member Reported by mlamouri@chromium.org, Jun 7 2016

Issue description

After we allow muted videos to autoplay, it would be fair to allow any video without an audio track to autoplay. We would need to pause if an audio track is added on the fly (via HTMLMediaElement API).
 
Cc: mlamouri@chromium.org avayvod@chromium.org dalecur...@chromium.org
 Issue 620243  has been merged into this issue.
Leaving some background information about this:
- the current media pipeline we use on Android goes to the system so it's unclear whether we can have track information without loading the full media. This is about to be fixed by Spitzer.
- we limit preloading of media files in some situations, in which case, we will not be able to find out if there is an audio track until we actually play.
- if the developer sets preload to none, we will not be able to get metadata too.

In other words, the audio track solution is more hacky than a predictable solution based on muted state.
Labels: Needs-BlinkMediaTriage
Blockedon: 658313
Labels: -Needs-BlinkMediaTriage
Labels: M-56
Labels: -M-56 -Pri-3 Pri-2
Components: Blink>Media>Autoplay
Components: -Blink>Media
Owner: mlamouri@chromium.org
Status: Started (was: Available)
Issue 822254 has been merged into this issue.

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