I'm hoping someone can help, I have published videos from SL3 to immediately play upon opening. This did work fine on all browsers, however today I have noticed on Chrome it now has a big grey play button to press first? ie works great still.
Does your course have video that plays automatically on the first slide?
Recently, Chrome changed the way it handles media autoplay. Now in Chrome 70+, learners may see a play button when they launch a course with video on the first slide. Just click the play button to start the course, and the media should play as expected.
Chrome uses indexing to remember when you've allowed audio to play on previous visits to the same site. After a while, learners won't see the gray play button because Chrome will know to autoplay media on that site.
That all makes sense, it all plays fine would have preferred it to start automatically (as it did do) but obviously if this is a Chrome thing then not a lot I can do about it.
Thank you for this answer. This has been bugging me for a while, but I didn't have time to research the issue before today. I can confirm that Safari for Mac handles the first page the same way Chrome does. Firefox for Mac autoplays the first slide the way they all did before last fall.
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Hi Lee!
Does your course have video that plays automatically on the first slide?
Recently, Chrome changed the way it handles media autoplay. Now in Chrome 70+, learners may see a play button when they launch a course with video on the first slide. Just click the play button to start the course, and the media should play as expected.
Chrome uses indexing to remember when you've allowed audio to play on previous visits to the same site. After a while, learners won't see the gray play button because Chrome will know to autoplay media on that site.
Let me know if that's what you are seeing!
Hi Alyssa,
Thanks for your reply.
That all makes sense, it all plays fine would have preferred it to start automatically (as it did do) but obviously if this is a Chrome thing then not a lot I can do about it.
Thanks again
Thank you for this answer. This has been bugging me for a while, but I didn't have time to research the issue before today. I can confirm that Safari for Mac handles the first page the same way Chrome does. Firefox for Mac autoplays the first slide the way they all did before last fall.
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