Chrome HTML5 Videos stop working if too many tabs are open - Memory issue?

Question

I\'m using jQuery to dynamically write objects, and running videojs to init them. After I play a video, SOMETIMES when I try to play it again, it

Answer 1

Exactly how many video tags to you have? What do they look like? Do they include preload='none' attribute? Are the source videos all on the server?

I ask because if you have more than six video tags on a single page pointing to the same source server then you could be experiencing "connection starvation":

• Chrome allows only six open connections to a single server (based on DNS name in the URL)
• the html5 video tag's preload attribute default value is 'auto'
• Chrome's auto behavior is to preload some data and leave the connection open ready to pull more data for the video

So, with more than six video tags on a single page pointing to a single server, the videos will not play. To resolve this particular problem, set the preload attribute to 'none'