Microsoft’s Edge and Google’s Chrome browsers could get improvements on the media playback front when it comes to embedded videos on websites, ensuring these clips don’t start to play before they become visible. Or, at least, this is Microsoft’s aim based on work apparently underway in Chromium, the open-source engine of both Edge and Chrome (plus other web browsers besides).
Microsoft’s proposed change would make it so that media playback is paused while a video isn’t yet fully rendered on a particular page. Currently, you can get a situation where a website is still loading - and an embedded video hasn’t yet appeared - but it starts to play, and you get audio with no picture.
