Xiaomi's built in MIUI browser opens up all videos inside a popup video player, as you see for example in this video to let users do anything else on their phones while watching the given video. (This part is coming directly from YouTube so we have zero control over it.) Also, the volume control might be missing completely regardless of your settings. YouTube had limited down its videos and they won't allow to autoplay them on iOS phones and tablets anymore. When your phone is in Low Power Mode no video autoplay can be started without user interaction, even if the videos are muted. Make sure you optimize your video properly and keep the file size around 5Mb maximum. If you don't think you should have a browser/device given limitation, then it will be a setting within your browser (or within the device's settings).ĭue to the common usage of mobile Internet some browsers, especially on iOS will not load autoplaying videos if their file size is large. Currently there's no workaround for this, so if you want your video to play automatically, it must be muted.Īll browsers have options to turn off video autoplaying, so to not allow any videos to automatically play at any circumstances.
#Html5 audio autoplay not working code#
Because of this we modified our code too, to start the video, if the user clicks anywhere on your page, as this is the best we could do and there are no workarounds.įirefox on desktop (probably mobile and tablet as well)įirefox automatically blocks any video which plays with sound, even on YouTube's site. The other one is, that a video can only start if the user had interaction with your website, meaning he clicked anywhere on it. So if you want a video with sound, you must use a video layer with the autoplay turned off.Ĭhrome on all devices (desktop computers too) and some other browsers start to take this behavior tooĬhrome with its latest versions also limited down videos, that they can only autoplay if the video is muted. Lightboxes don't have muting options, so they need to be started manually by the user.īackground videos can never play if they're not muted. If you want your video to play with sound turn off the autoplay and let the visitor decide whether they want the video to play. In this documentation you can see reasons and our actions towards them.Īny limitation which is about blocking the videos because they try to autoplay with sound affects theīrowsers, especially on mobile do not allow videos from autoplaying with sound, as an autoplaying video can create a negative experience. Video autoplay handling Your videos in a lot of browsers won't autoplay, because it is not allowed in them!Īutoplaying videos is quite a complicated issue, as many browsers are fighting against it, because it can be used to create a bad user experience.
#Html5 audio autoplay not working how to#
How to debug why videos aren't autoplaying for you?.Can't swipe over video, youtube or vimeo layer.Video doesn't look the way it should be.Video issues (autoplay not working, video player looks different) In this article
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