Re: <video> toggling video rendering

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.

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software