Manysites now have auto-playing or automatically streaming videos: embedded in news pages, down side bars promoting other content, and some sites even have massive honking-great purely decorative videos in the background of a search page (e.g. AirBnB and Lastminute).
As well as the annoyance factor, these are a problem for me because I'm usually on a metered connection, and these things can waste hundreds of valuable MBs in seconds, on something I didn't even want to watch in the first place. There's almost always no way to stop the video downloading other than closing the page.
Is there any way I can prevent videos from loading at all in Chrome? I've already blocked Flash using Chrome's Content Settings for "Plug-ins". What I want is, a way such that any time Chrome sees a or , it just shows something like a grey box and doesn't even touch the linked video content. Maybe a "click to load video" button would be a nice feature, but it's not necessary.
First of all, what you ask may not completely be achieved as you please. If the case is that you want no video playing on websites because you are on metered connections, and regardless of using Google Chrome, I believe this can only be possible with Firefox and NoScript
Try to install Tampermonkey and search for a script that changes the 'preload' attribute of the tag from 'auto' to 'none'. However, changing this attribute would only stop auto-playing instead of blocking the element entirely, as NoScript does, which means Chrome may still buffer some small parts yet without playing them (BTW, Firefox has a feature to stop auto-play videos).
You can use AdBlockPlus to hide elements you don't prefer by user specific filters. Note you can use this option if you have few websites to block videos and after you discover the tags that hold them, e.g. the filter ##div.hero__background hides the background video on
airbnb.com. Otherwise, you can hide every video tag on every website you visit by using the filter ##video.
I still say that you won't get something that block every video on every website. So AdBlockPlus sometimes fail to block with the filter ##video. However, if you visit a website frequently and you know it has videos, use ContentBlockHelper that will identify common elements, like images and video, as icons sorted by their URL sources. Block videos by clicking on the video icon as indicated below, and repeat with the other URL sources (on
airbnb.com, videos may not load by default so the screenshot below may differ):
I repeat, this is not a global solution. But it does give you some control on websites you visit frequently until you switch to Firefox (honestly I'm not a fan of Firefox but it's the only browser that should provide a satisfying solution for you).
While none of the solutions on the 'net seemed to work for those increasingly annoying news sites that throw media in your face, I was overjoyed that chrome #61 finally allows us to control this - though it is a lab and will unceremoniously disappear on us one day.
Update: Doesn't work on some sites; and since switching to Vivaldi, this switch is not honored at all, so I use uBlock Origin instead, which seems to work well for most sites, except it doesn't block that darn subscribe to newsletter pop-ups which 75% of sites throw at your face.I hate HTML5 for the increased powers it has given these sites, instead of us.
Show them exactly what you see on your screen, comment on the work and set clear expectations.
You can always add to your video all the needed files, tables or tasks to boost your teamwork even better.
You can create videos for the whole group or individual students. Use your voice and gestures to guide students and provide them with all the needed feedback. BTW, you can add more materials to your screenshots and videos such as links, embeds to homework forms, files and more!
Take a screenshot and add text, draw arrows and highlight where your clients need to click.
Or, create a professional video with showing exactly what the users should do. Show, speak and smile to boost your customer success!
An online screen recorder is a tool that allows you to capture any area of your screen or take a screenshot of it. With it, you can capture your screen and record video tutorials, apps & games, webinars, online videos and more.
In Nimbus Capture extension, there are no serious restrictions on the video duration (you can record up to 10 hours in the Pro Plan). In the Free version, you can record videos for up to 5 minutes. To get unlimited recording, upgrade your account here >>.
Some people using Mac Safari or Google Chrome will see an error message when accessing Kaltura pages in Canvas. The message states: It seems your browser is blocking 3rd party session cookies which are required for the Kaltura application. To resolve this issue, please update your settings to allow 3rd party cookies.
Note: The fix to address the previous errors for 3rd party cookies in Firefox version 96 deployed as scheduled on Sunday, January 23rd, 2022. Verification has already been received from some customers that this has resolved the issue. Kaltura Software Release Notes
DuckDuckGo is a free web browser search extension does not collect search history and blocks many types of tracker scripts. Unfortunately , since the Kaltura media player tracks students watching videos in order to collect analytics, DuckDuckGo will block the Kaltura media player. The solution is to uninstall DuckDuckGo web extension.
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When trying to play a video, the video never starts and Chrome freezes. I believe this is a hardware acceleration issue. Going into chrome://flags and disabling hardware decode acceleration allows the video to play fine. Previous 4170 driver worked fine and didn't have this problem.
This issue has been confirmed resolved by our engineering team, and better yet the driver is already released. We've done some pretty decent testing on it so far and have not been able to replicate it since so please give it a shot and let us know if you experience any issues. (Please report separate issues in their own thread using the guidance from the /thread/77761 sticky on the main Gfx page) Thanks!
Requested system reports are attached. As far as I can tell, this is an issue with Broadwell chips that have GPU accelerated decode for VP9 when played using Chrome and HTML5 (tested on YouTube). There aren't many videos that don't use VP9 on YouTube, but the ones that still use only h.264 worked fine. The bug only seems to be when VP9 codec is used and only on the models of Broadwell that have VP9 acceleration. Workaround is currently to disable hardware decode in chrome flags or to revert to the 4170 driver.
Intel provides with generic drivers and computer manufacturers customize them according to their specifications. Please double check if you are using the latest BIOS version and latest chipset driver.
While I initially thought the 4243 drivers fixed the problem, it seems the drivers improved but didn't completely fix the problem. While it wouldn't freeze immediately upon the video starting, it would if you seeked around the video and changed resolutions and sometimes randomly after the video played for awhile.
I think the problem is finally solved with this updated driver ( -Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Intel-NUC -Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Intel-NUC). I just tested with stable Chrome 44.0.2403.89 64-bit with this new driver on Windows 8.1. You must run Chrome with the --enable-accelerated-vpx-decode switch to enable VP9 decoding since Chrome 44 disabled accelerated VP9 by default due to this issue. Loaded a VP9 YouTube video and was able to seek, change resolutions, and play video for several minutes with no freezing so far. Will have to test more, but so far so good.
After more testing, the 4248 drivers still freeze randomly after playing VP9 video for some time. It does seem to fix the freezing while seeking and changing resolutions, but even not doing that and just playing the video straight through will cause a freeze eventually, sometimes letting the video play longer or shorter before freezing.
For information, Lenovo's "System Update" software is pushing graphics driver version 10.18.14.4206 (not .4222) on to machines and this is causing the same issue (that's how I first discovered the problem). Lenovo support have been no help and advised re-installing Windows. Reverting to graphics driver version 15.36.19.64.4170 resolves the issue. This further supports the theory that the problem occurs specifically with Broadwell.
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