We use Brightcove for our video hosting. Our BC player is set to autoplay. If I load a direct link to the video in a browser, the video autoplays. But when the video is in a Web Object in Storyline 360, I have to click the play button.
A little research showed that Chrome turns off autoplay, so I tried in Firefox, which should allow it, but it still doesn't work. I even tried adding &autoplay=true at the end of the URL (which still works when it's a standalone link), but no go.
I can only assume it's the SL web object "browser" stopping the autoplay, but I don't see any controls to override settings.
Anyone run into this? I've seen a few YouTube video threads, butthose don't apply here.
important: there is a problem with Chrome, Review 360 and autoplay external videos (vimeo, brightcove, youtube (not yet tested) ...) with the standard link (cross domain problems with the iframe ???)
So I created a separate HTML page with the iframe in it (I even copied your code to make sure it would work). The page, run by itself, works correctly (video autoplays). But when the HTML page is linked to in a WebObject in Storyline, it doesn't autoplay.
As the first slide, I added a dummy audio file. It just makes me click play, then I have to click play again when the actual video loads.
On a subsequent slide later in the course, there's another page/video embedded like this, also doesn't autopay. So either I'm doing something wrong, or you are magical.
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you integrate BC player via iFrame in the Web Object?
please post the embed code with an real video for testing
i'm about to test vimeo autoplay in web object anyway
The video is just added to the web object with direct link. No other embedding.
Example video: https://players.brightcove.net/4680021553001/fXVn3ZyqB_default/index.html?videoId=6311770407112
if your video is on the first slide, you have to insert a dummy audio on the first slide
=> the black page with the play button appears on start of the course (so autoplay is enabled)
iframe in webobject
result:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/f1009ae7-22e5-4c93-9381-543a2b165d1a/review
important: there is a problem with Chrome, Review 360 and autoplay external videos (vimeo, brightcove, youtube (not yet tested) ...) with the standard link (cross domain problems with the iframe ???)
use instead the review 360 course, embeded on our webserver
https://www.feldmannmediagroup.com/test/public/Storyline/brightcove-webObject/wrapperReview360.html
or complete from our webserver
https://www.feldmannmediagroup.com/test/public/Storyline/brightcove-webObject/wrapper.html
Jürgen
Hi Jurgen, thank you for taking the time to test it out. I'll see if our system allows for the iframe method and test it out!
Regards,
Chris
So I created a separate HTML page with the iframe in it (I even copied your code to make sure it would work). The page, run by itself, works correctly (video autoplays). But when the HTML page is linked to in a WebObject in Storyline, it doesn't autoplay.
As the first slide, I added a dummy audio file. It just makes me click play, then I have to click play again when the actual video loads.
On a subsequent slide later in the course, there's another page/video embedded like this, also doesn't autopay. So either I'm doing something wrong, or you are magical.
Update: so it does work in Firefox, but not Chrome or Edge.
does my story example works on your server?
important: autoplay with chrome don't work on review 360 !