Microsoft’s Edge browsers and Google’s Chrome can take advantage of innovations in media playback when it comes to videos embedded on internet sites, making sure those clips don’t start playing until they’re visible. Or, at least, that’s Microsoft’s goal, based on the work being done on Chromium, the open-source engine for Edge and Chrome (as well as other Internet browsers).
Microsoft’s proposed replacement would cause media playback to be interrupted while a video has not yet fully played on a specific page. Currently, you may find yourself in a situation where an online page is still loading and an embedded video has not provided the impression yet, but playback starts and you get audio without images.
With Microsoft’s update, the video will be paused while the browser is still displaying the web page and video clip, and may not play until everything is in place (and the video is displayed on the screen). Obviously, this is a much better way to work, since audio will supposedly not be transmitted out of “nowhere” for a short period of time before the embedded video appears in the browser.
This problem arises because of the way media is integrated into Internet sites (or Internet applications), the most common being “iframes. ” . “‘ on the original web page, and that content would likely be temporarily hidden on the main website.
This series of occasions causes the sound of an embedded video to play before the frame portion of the video is processed, which can be confusing or confusing; you may even think your PC has a problem.
Microsoft’s proposal to achieve this is to introduce a new policy for Chromium on how iframe media playback works. Basically, the policy determines whether the embedded video (the iframe) has been rendered, and if not, the video clip (audio and visual elements). ) is paused while the rendering procedure continues. Playback will only start when everything has been fully rendered and the video clip has given the impression in the browser.
This incoming update for Chromium was detected via Windows Latest, but it’s still early days for this possible fix from Microsoft. Developing and deploying the feature in Edge and Chrome (or other internet browsers) may take some time, and it will also need to be tested before releasing the final versions of those browsers.
We may see this feature in testing in a few months, so let’s keep our hands crossed. I could see how this can also make browsing more fun and less distracting, especially if an Internet page has multiple embedded videos. The good news is that not only Microsoft Edge users will benefit, but so will other people running other Chromium-based browsers, as we mentioned.
Kristina is a UK-based IT publisher interested in all things IT, software, technology, maths and science. Previously, he wrote articles on popular culture, economics and other topics.
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