When autoplaying videos, don't autoplay until they are in view

[turt2live]

Description

Videos that are out of view but still in the loaded timeline should only autoplay once they are visible by the user, not right away. You will need the autoplay option enabled to reproduce this.

Log: not sent

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser)
• Browser: Chrome 58
• OS: Windows 10
• URL: riot.im/develop

[turt2live]

Further, pause them when they have been scrolled out of view so that they can continue playing when you scroll them back into view.

[turt2live]

Updated original post for the bounty :)

[IJustDev]

Is this still up to date?

[turt2live]

yes, though the bounty image is broken and tbh I don't plan on fixing that.

[IJustDev]

I'm currently working on it. I hope I will soon be able to create a pull request.

This issue should be moved to matrix-react-sdk. Shouldn't it?

[t3chguy]

react-sdk doesn't have issues enabled so no

[IJustDev]

I created following commit. Even though it fixes the bug, it's a very ugly workaround and I will come up with a better solution in a short period of time.

IJustDev/matrix-react-sdk@ef49168