HTML 5 Video "autoplay" not automatically starting in CHROME
Google ChromeHtml5 VideoGoogle Chrome Problem Overview
I have the following code:
<video controls autoplay>
<source src="video/myVideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video/myVideo.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="video/myVideo.ogv" type="video/ogg"> </video>
The video:
- displays well in both Chrome and Firefox
- In Firefox it plays as expected
- In Chrome it displays but not "autostarts". This is the problem.
- If I click on it (in Chrome) it plays ok
Tried
<video controls autoplay>...</video>
<video controls autoplay="1">...</video>
<video controls autoplay="autoplay">...</video>
Nothing worked in Chrome
Then I also tried changing the codec, as recommended in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video, but it also did not work:
<source src="movie.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'>
<source src="movie.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
<source src="movie.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4D401E, mp4a.40.2"'>
So now I am at a dead end. Thanks for any pointers! Much appreciated.
Google Chrome Solutions
Solution 1 - Google Chrome
You need to add playsinline autoplay muted loop
because Chrome does not allow a video to autostart if it is not muted. Also, right now I don't know why it is not working in all Android devices. I'm trying to look if it's version specific, if I find something I'll let you know.
Chrome issue: After some research I have found that it doesn't work on Chrome sometimes because in responsive you can activate the data saver, and it blocks any video to autostart.
Solution 2 - Google Chrome
Try this when i tried giving muted , check this demo in https://codepen.io/mmdileepthomas/pen/QroQZp">codpen
<video width="320" height="240" controls autoplay muted id="videoId">
<source src="http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
script
function toggleMute() {
var video=document.getElementById("videoId");
if(video.muted){
video.muted = false;
} else {
debugger;
video.muted = true;
video.play()
}
}
$(document).ready(function(){
setTimeout(toggleMute,3000);
})
edited attribute content
autoplay muted playsinline
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
Solution 3 - Google Chrome
This may not have been the case at the time the question was asked, but as of Chrome 66, autoplay is blocked.
http://bgr.com/2018/04/18/google-chrome-66-download-auto-playing-videos-block/
Solution 4 - Google Chrome
I was just reading this article, and it says:
> Important: the order of the video files is vital; Chrome currently has a bug in which it will not autoplay a .webm video if it comes after anything else.
So it looks like your problem would be solved if you put the .webm first in your list of sources. Hope that helps.
Solution 5 - Google Chrome
Try this:
<video src="{{ asset('path/to/your_video.mp4' )}}" muted autoplay loop playsinline></video>
And put this js
after that:
window.addEventListener('load', async () => {
let video = document.querySelector('video[muted][autoplay]');
try {
await video.play();
} catch (err) {
video.controls = true;
}
});
Solution 6 - Google Chrome
This question are greatly described here
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
TL;DR You are still always able to autoplay muted
videos
Also, if you're want to autoplay videos on iOS add playsInline
attribute, because by default iOS tries to fullscreen videos
https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/
Solution 7 - Google Chrome
These are the attributes I used to get video to autoplay on Chrome - onloadedmetadata="this.muted = true"
, playsinline
, autoplay
, muted
, loop
Example:
<video src="path/to/video.mp4" onloadedmetadata="this.muted = true" playsinline autoplay muted loop></video>
Solution 8 - Google Chrome
Extremeandy has mentioned as of Chrome 66 autoplay video has been disabled.
After looking into this I found that muted videos are still able to be autoplayed. In my case the video didn't have any audio, but adding muted to the video tag has fixed it:
Solution 9 - Google Chrome
Here is it: http://www.htmlcssvqs.com/8ed/examples/chapter-17/webm-video-with-autoplay-loop.html You have to add the tags: autoplay="autoplay" loop="loop" or just "autoplay" and "loop".