Does the "video toggle" plugin save data and/or computation (load on the renderer/GPU) when "Song" mode is selected?

[real-Sandip-Das]

Basically the title. A question.

[ArjixWasTaken]

I am not the one who made the plugin, so the extent of my knowledge is limited, but from looking at the code, I think it directly uses the built-in behavior of YTM, so it depends on YTM if it saves data or not.

[h-banii]

I'm not sure, but I think the toggle just hides/shows the video with css.

If you want to get just the audio it would probably be easier to write a new app from scratch.

P.S.: You can also ask questions in the Q&A https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/discussions/categories/q-a

[srinadhkesineni]

I'm experiencing the same issue. My battery is draining quickly even though I'm only listening to audio and not watching video. would it possible to create other plugin for toggle video?

[h-banii]

would it possible to create other plugin for toggle video?

I think it's unlikely to happen, see #3220

[JellyBrick]

See #3220

[JellyBrick]

Separately from this, due to Electron's architecture, the video element is not rendered when the app is in the background, which helps save GPU resources.