Re: Autoplay
Vinnie Breidenthal
As you may have noticed, web browsers are moving towards stricter autoplaypolicies in order to improve the user experience, minimize incentives to installad blockers, and reduce data consumption on expensive and/or constrainednetworks. These changes are intended to give greater control of playback tousers and to benefit publishers with legitimate use cases.
You can disable the autoplay policy entirely by using a command lineflag:chrome.exe --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required.This allows you to test your website as if user were strongly engaged withyour site and playback autoplay would be always allowed.
You can also decide to make sure autoplay is never allowed by disabling MEI andwhether sites with the highest overall MEI get autoplay by default fornew users. Do this with flags: chrome.exe--disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies.
A permissions policy allows developers to selectively enable and disablebrowser features and APIs. Once an origin has received autoplaypermission, it can delegate that permission to cross-origin iframes with thepermissions policy for autoplay. Note that autoplay is allowed by default onsame-origin iframes.
When the permissions policy for autoplay is disabled, calls to play() without auser gesture will reject the promise with a NotAllowedError DOMException. Andthe autoplay attribute will also be ignored.
Example 2: GlobalNewsSite.com has both text and video content.Most users go to the site for text content and watch videos only occasionally.Users' media engagement score is low, so autoplay wouldn't be allowed if a usernavigates directly from a social media page or search.
Example 3: LocalNewsSite.com has both text and video content.Most people enter the site through the homepage and then click on the newsarticles. Autoplay on the news article pages would be allowed because of userinteraction with the domain. However, care should be taken to make sure usersaren't surprised by autoplaying content.
Example 4: MyMovieReviewBlog.com embeds an iframe with a movie trailer togo with a review. Users interacted with the domain to get to the blog, soautoplay is allowed. However, the blog needs to explicitly delegate thatprivilege to the iframe in order for the content to autoplay.
It is possible to change the autoplay behavior with Chrome enterprise policiesfor use cases such as kiosks or unattended systems. Check out the PolicyList help page to learn how to set the autoplay related enterprisepolicies:
Here's the one thing to remember: Don't ever assume a video will play, anddon't show a pause button when the video is not actually playing. It is soimportant that I'm going to write it one more time below for those who simplyskim through that post.
One cool way to engage users is to use muted autoplay and let them choseto unmute. (See the example below.) Some websites already do this effectively,including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
The Web Audio API has been covered by autoplay since Chrome 71.There are a few things to know about it. First, it is good practice to wait fora user interaction before starting audio playback so that users are aware ofsomething happening. Think of a "play" button or "on/off" switch for instance.You can also add an "unmute" button depending on the flow of the app.
If you create your AudioContext on page load, you'll have to call resume()at some time after the user interacted with the page (e.g., after a user clicksa button). Alternatively, the AudioContext will be resumed after a usergesture if start() is called on any attached node.
To detect whether the browser requires a user interaction to play audio, checkAudioContext.state after you've created it. If playing is allowed, it shouldimmediately switch to running. Otherwise it will be suspended. If you listento the statechange event, you can detect changes asynchronously.
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I've been trying to get two Vimeo videos on a page (www.linehouse.london/tsp) to autoplay on loop, but after trying 5 different things and checking every thread about it here on the forum, I am still unable to make it work. Sometimes it works once, and then 'breaks' (as in, stops autoplaying after I refresh the page). Or it autoplays on my machine but not on others.
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Hi friends!
Looks like an old thread but issues with video autoplay on Squarespace are persistent. IMHO it should just work as other options do like Boldgrid for example don't have a problem managing it well.
My context is how to embed video from Vimeo on a Gallery page and have it autoplay.
It embeds fine, but won't autoplay, even though the Vimeo embed code specifies it should. Also Squarespace alters the Vimeo embed code after saving it. Why? I have no idea.
Here's the gallery example
Here's the Vimeo embed code:
Here's what it looks like after one saves it on Squarespace:
Again, no idea why Squarespace changes the embed code, or why "muted" isn't included by Vimeo, which seems to be "a thing" as far as I've read.
I'd be grateful for any advice. Thanks so much!
When listening to music on Pandora, I like to play a specific song and then let it autoplay based on this song. Recently, the autoplay function has stopped working and the music just stops after the song I selected is over. I used to select songs and skip them immediately because I wanted Pandora to play music based on this genre but now that I'm having this problem, the music just stops after I hit next on the current song that's playing. However, later in the day or the next day, this issue doesn't occur. I always make sure the auto-play option is enabled in my advanced settings in Pandora and I have a premium account.
The problem wasn't occurring yesterday and my Pandora was functioning as normal; however, I followed your steps and Cleared Data via the Storage option for my Pandora app and signed back into my account.
My Pandora is working normally right now as well but the problem I reported occurs every once in a while (the issue was occurring when I created the post). Do you think it's best to leave this post open and I can post a message when the problem starts happening again?
I am having the same issue, I'm on a Samsung galaxy S21+ I've been using Pandora for forever, and the autoplay app on my phone has never had issues up until a few weeks ago. When I am on a computer, autoplay works fine, but on my phone it no longer works. Any song that I play, it will only play the one song, it won't continue to play. I also have enable autoplay turned on under my settings, and I have autoplay turned on, on the individual albums/songs.
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Hi!
I have uploaded a video into my Qualtrics presentation (not from YouTube, but simply uploaded from my computer) into a 'descriptive text' box. My presentation involves randomisation both within and between blocks, which has created some issues. I need the video to autoplay, but I haven't been able to do so yet. The questions answered on this topic seem only to relate to videos embedded from YouTube, and the custom codes don't work for me. I am wondering if someone has ideas of how I could achieve this?
I would also like to remove the play/pause buttons from the video (same issues as above). Further, I can't get questions to autoadvance (from the look&feel motion section) since the randomiser is in place. Does anyone have tips for this?
Thanks in advance!
The code that I've shared does not interact with the audio, so there's something going wrong in your config. There could be too many things that could be causing an audio echo, so I can't point towards a solution without looking at your implementation.
Even if you get it autoplay to work for you, sad experience says it isn't going to work for all your users, especially those people using Chrome. Chrome has a feature that disables autoplay, meant to stop ads from autoplaying.
Note that this does work on Chrome (and you don't need all the other junk they give you in the embed code). To get the ads not to show up, you can add a loop to the video to just keep playing, which I had to do today in Storyline as well. The solution is to add a playlist with the same ID as the video. You can also remove the controls if you like. Here is the code with those components.
That is the most recent update, and unmuted autoplay is only allowed with some specific parameters. I was able to add everything I shared above to a YouTube video embedded in Storyline and have it work in Review (with &mute=1).
If not could you suggest an app that would let me have my video autoplay instantly and loop?
I don't want to place the video in the header which does autoplay, because the framing of the video shifts too much for me. I prefer the set video frame within my layout.
Here's the link to my first attempt at placing a short illustrative video on my home page. I want it to loop and autoplay!
Many thanks for your tips.
Kind regards
Frances.
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