[Feature request] Video playback stream audio only to save bandwidth and energy
Reported by
orsch...@gmail.com,
Feb 3 2018
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Example URL: Steps to reproduce the problem: Hey guys, Would like to suggest a potentially really useful feature for people in low bandwidth countries and folks who want to conserve their battery life with their laptop while not plugged in AC. Take a look at the attached screenshot. What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? It would be huge to have an option in the context menu to only stream the audio bits of a video and disable the video part which needs a lot of bandwidth and tends to drain down battery easily. What do you think? :-) Thank! Robert Did this work before? N/A Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? N/A Does this work in other browsers? N/A Chrome version: 64.0.3282.140 Channel: stable OS Version: Fedora 27 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 28.0 r0 Contents of chrome://gpu:
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Feb 5 2018
Thanks for filing the issue! As per comment#0 by reporter it's clear the issue is a feature request, Hence considering it as Feature and marking it as Untriaged for further inputs from Dev team.
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Feb 5 2018
Unfortunately this isn't something we can do. It's up the site to stop download of video resources when using MSE and when using SRC=, audio/video are interleaved so it's impossible to continue one without the other. We do stop decoding video streams in the background to save on power usage though.
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Feb 6 2018
> We do stop decoding video streams in the background to save on power usage though. Well great, that's already something. Thanks for your work and your time responding here! :-) |
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Comment 1 by krajshree@chromium.org
, Feb 4 2018