Activate automatically when a flash video is playing
Idea suggested by a user on Reddit (http://
Unfortunately, more testing is required to see if this would work properly. Apparently most sites (like YouTube) put a file there, but some don't (like Hulu). Also, we would have to check different kinds of banner ads to ensure that we wouldn't get into a situation where a looping video would prevent powersaving indefinitely and wipe out our user's batteries even though they just happened to browse to a site with a video banner ad.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Isaiah Heyer
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 1.0
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
1.0
- Started by
- Isaiah Heyer
- Completed by
- Isaiah Heyer
Whiteboard
Even if we can't automatically detect when a user is watching a flash video automatically, just automatically detecting when youtube is being watched would be a big plus. This should be configurable of course.
One more complication (pragmattica): I was watching a zero punctuation review today, and the little file showed up in /tmp as expected. Unfortunately, after the video was finished playing, the file was still there. The file stays there until the user moves away to a different page, so the file's existence only shows that the user is on a page that has a flash video, and not that the video is actively playing. It would be nice to deactivate Caffeine once the video stops, so that the battery won't drain just because the user had watched a video hours ago and left the browser window open.
(Isaiah Heyer) I found a possible solution, check it out on the wiki.
