How to prevent media playback (video/audio) from pausing when Capacitor app is backgrounded?

[odion-cloud]

I am building a Capacitor app that includes media playback (YouTube embeds and standard <video> tags). However, as soon as the app is minimized or the screen is locked, the playback stops immediately.

I’ve noticed this happens with both YouTube iframe embeds and local/remote files in the <video> tag.

My Questions:

1. Is there a way to prevent the Webview from suspending when media is playing?

2. Are there specific Capacitor plugins or native configurations (Xcode/Android Manifest) required to enable “Background Audio” or “Background Media” support?

[Hills90210]

@odion-cloud

• Is there a way to prevent the Webview from suspending when media is playing?
• Are there specific Capacitor plugins or native configurations (Xcode/Android Manifest) required to enable “Background Audio” or “Background Media” support?

1. No
2. No

you would need to create custom plugin that would sound like hell to make a WebView into a widget. to be honest, not worth time.

[twestrick]

Here are some audio options

Audio stops playing after some time on iOS (works fine on Android)

How are you playing audio? Are you using a native plugin or web players? If web, you are going to run into issues especially with long playing audio. The following native plugins are available that I am aware of: GitHub - mediagrid/capacitor-native-audio: Play audio in a Capacitor app natively from a URL/web source simultaneously with background audio and background play support. (I maintain this) GitHub - eduardoRoth/media-player: Native Media Player for Video and Audio with Fullscreen and E…

EDIT

Oops, didn’t read your entire OP . You were asking mostly about video. Not sure on that.

[odion-cloud]

thanks i was able to do this with seperate webview play perfetcly in background but position the webview to display properly was not fit.