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[Bug 1068576] Re: Inhibit screensaver when playing videos

 

In my opinion this should be fixed independently of the webapps

Is this html5 videos? Flash videos or both?
For flash you can always use caffeine (which should be in the default distribution imo) and for html5 I already filed a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/434476

I think flash videos will be gone soon (at least for youtube) so we
should focus on html5.

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Title:
  Inhibit screensaver when playing videos

Status in WebApps: libunity:
  New
Status in “unity-webapps-youtube” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When playing videos on YouTube and being idle, the screensaver may
  start. This is something unexpected and is also something that doesn't
  happen with Totem or other video players.

  The unity-webapps-youtube extension should do something to inhibit the
  screensaver. This is something that can't (and probably shouldn't) be
  done generically by the web browser, because videos are often used in
  advertizing.

  Original description:
  I don't know how it is in Firefox, but in Chromium, when you play flash movies, your computer will still go to sleep and/or dim the screen after a certain time.

  It's hard to avoid this for all flash video, but for YouTube this
  really can be avoided by this webapp extension.

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