Android-components: [Bug] Media notification is triggered by gif

[andreicristianpetcu]

Steps to reproduce

open https://mobile.twitter.com/discordapp/status/1166790936954671104

Expected behavior

no media notification visible

Actual behavior

media notification is visible

Device information

• Android device: OnePlus5t
• Fenix version: latest nightly

[NotWoods]

cc @pocmo

Twitter GIFs are actually videos with no audio (which are faster than raw GIFs). Should we should the notification if the video is muted, autoplaying, with no controls?

[pocmo]

Should we should the notification if the video is muted, autoplaying, with no controls?

Probably not. I need to check if we have everything to detect that. Nominated the ticket for triage.

[pocmo]

I can't reproduce this with the twitter link above (anymore?). However I think I can see something similar on giphy.com.

I'm undecided whether we should show a notification for muted video. It may not play any audio but it is still potentially using traffic, e.g. when actually streaming a video. Of course there are other ways how we could consider fixing that (e.g. pausing muted video when the app goes to the background; but the app could also be in the foreground and just a different tab is selected ... complicated).

@topotropic What's your take from UX side? Should we show a media notification for all playing media content or limit that based on whether the media is muted (or other states)?

[NotWoods]

I'm thinking that we shouldn't run videos in the background if they're muted, since there's nothing to see or listen to. This would also be the case when on a different tab. We had someone note that they accidentally consumed 7GB of data because they didn't notice a video started playing on their phone before going to bed.

[andreicristianpetcu]

If it's the main active tab and thescreen is locked then thevideo should play @NotWoods

A lot of people listen to music on youtube in Fennec https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/

[NotWoods]

I agree that videos on the active tab should always play. I just think that muted videos (not those playing audio) shouldn't play when the tab isn't active.

[topotropic]

@pocmo apologies for the late reply here; I think the comments above all make sense, here's a summary:

• videos w/o sound or muted videos that are in the background should be paused
• videos with sound that are in the background continue to play and there's a media notification
• videos w or w/o sound, or muted videos in the foreground keep playing and there's a media notification

does that make sense? if so, is it feasible?

[ekager]

I think this can also be closed by #6432 ?

[rocketsroger]

Confirmed this is fixed on Fenix nightly. Closing