- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:20:47 +0200
- To: "Michael A. Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:25:29 +0200, Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com> wrote: > If you load <video> on some site and just want to hear the audio, Seems like an uncommon request. Does any media player support this? > is there a way to turn off the video output so you can save some cpu and > just listen to the audio? You can hide the <video> in a number of ways or use <audio>, and then the browser can optimize away the video decoding. > If not, I think that would be totally awesome if you could do that (wish > youtube and all the other video sites did that). > > Something like video.toggleVideoOutput() so the site can provide a > button. The page can set video.hidden to do this. > Also, have the functionality present in the browser-provided controls. I guess the browser is free to provide this functionality in the UI. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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