Video Autostart

  • 8 June 2020
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marcogk

Hello everybody,

I wonder, if there is a solution to have a video autostarted (unmuted)

Currently it‘s not possible with YouTube.

Does anybody maybe know other providers, where this works?

Best Marco

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Hristian
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Hi @marcogk,

You can autoplay an embedded YouTube video.
Just add autoplay=1 to your URL and your video will autoplay on load.

However, keep in mind this won’t work on mobile phones due to limitations set by mobile browsers.

Best,
Hristian

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marcogk

I know about this (and other) parameters. But autoplay doesn’t work when video is not muted

Kenji_Sano1

Have you tried uploading it to Giphy cat and then using their iframe code on the landing page?

Harvey_Carpenter

Hey @marcogk.

The restriction on playing videos unmuted is a Chrome restriction (with other browsers like Safari following suit) rather than a Youtube restriction. See: https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004485728-Autoplaying-and-looping-embedded-videos

I’d consider embedding an autoplayed, muted video and:

  • Rely less on sound - use subtitles or visual cues more in your video
  • Ask users to unmute the video by highlighting the button (like Instagram’s “SOUND” sticker)

Sorry it’s not the answer you wanted. FWIW, I have a muted vid on my homepage and it works well.

rahul_kumar

Since April 2018, Google made some changes to the Autoplay Policy. You not only need to add the autoplay=1 as a query param, but also add allow=‘autoplay’ as an iframe’s attribute

So while embed youtube video, you will have to do something like this:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID?autoplay=1" allow='autoplay'></iframe>

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