Pause autoplaying muted video by attribute when invisible (Android)

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 58)
Intent stage: None

Summary

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.

Standards & signals

Firefox: No signal
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/690468

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

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

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