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Eloston / disable-html5-autoplay

[CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED] An extension for Chromium-based browsers that disables autoplay of HTML5 audio and video
GNU General Public License v3.0
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WebRTC broken (e.g. Google Hangouts and Blue Jeans meetings) #34

Open spatula75 opened 8 years ago

spatula75 commented 8 years ago

With Disable HTML5 Autoplay running, incoming WebRTC video in both Google Hangouts and Blue Jeans meetings becomes extremely choppy, as does the "self view" window. All frames are dropped for several seconds, followed by a handful of frames making it through, followed by more frames being dropped.

To reproduce, just install the extension and attempt to have a Google Hangouts meeting. Observe what happens with the incoming video and the self-view video. Then disable the extension and observe that it all returns to normal.

Eloston commented 8 years ago

This sounds like some conflict between Disable HTML5 Autoplay and the webpage: the extension is trying to pause the video, but the page tries to make it play.

0.7 will introduce a new algorithm as described in #16. When it is finished, I will revisit this issue.

bobjackman commented 8 years ago

+1 on this! It took me longer than I'd like to admit before figuring out it was this extension!

mackelito commented 7 years ago

+1... makes this extension not that useful for me :(

benridge commented 7 years ago

The workaround is to disable the extension for that website, which the extension options allow you to do (create a rule). Users discovering that is the difficult part. It took me a long time as well.

joshuajabbour commented 7 years ago

This extension causes Hangouts to not receive audio (for me). Disabling fixes it. The whitelist sorta works, but still seems choppy.

Piedone commented 7 years ago

The same with HipChat.