Comment 2 for bug 1697373

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Do not dim/lock the screen when a video is playing

gnome-shell only knows that Chrome/Chromeium is running. It does not know what the browser is doing.

So if you want to disable blanking specifically during video playback, that's a browser enhancement. You might need to log a bug directly with Chromium/Chrome upstream.