Can inserted video via embed code be made autoplay?

Hi Dave! 

That looks like it is being controlled by the website/video that you are utilizing. When you go to the website, you must click play as well.

Not sure if you could add anything to the embed code to overwrite this, but the Storyline software is not controlling this behavior.

Hopefully someone in the community will be able to further assist.

Thanks, Leslie. That's what I was afraid of. The URL I included above is the only one I can get. The Transamerica site appears to use Wistia, which is apparently a service that hosts their video that allows them to track response and traffic. Normally I can usually right-click on the video window and grab the video URL, but on this site when I try, all it gives me is screen settings and info about Wistia . . . no separate URL for the video itself. I'd really like to include an autoplay to insure that viewers will see it.

That's what I saw as well Dave. I tried to manipulate the code to add an ?autoplay=1 and it didn't seem to notice. 

Perhaps someone with more Wistia knowledge can assist if it's able to be done.

If it's a tracking service, then it makes sense to me that they would prohibit autoplay to prevent any bots from accessing the site repeatedly to influence the tracking results.

Perhaps so. No experience with that :)

I don't either. Just a wild guess! I'm good at those . . .

OK, bumping this up to see if anybody can tell me . . . Can a third party website video be inserted as a web object (or any other item) into a Storyline presentation AND then have the video on that page play automatically, THEN move on to the next slide in Storyline?

Is this possible? If it is possible in Storyline, any advice on the correct procedure would be much appreciated! We want to insure that our viewers will watch at least some of the video. If the only way to insert this video is to send them to the third party website, then force them to click on the video, that's not good enough.

If it's NOT possible, I still need to know so I can move on to trying to obtain the website video as a standalone file and then insert that into my presentation to play automatically.

Thanks for whatever anyone can tell me!

Dave

Hi Dave! If the 3rd party website is not set to auto launch the video or does not allow the option to, then there is not a way for Storyline to overwrite that. 

If you wish for Storyline to maintain control of the user viewing the video and the ability to proceed with the course, I would recommend embedding the video.

Hopefully if anyone in the community has dealt with something like this, they will be able to chime in and assist as well.

Hi Leslie . . . As it so happens, somebody else here at my place just now showed me how to get around this. You can go to the website with the video, then do a record screen from within Storyline. I think you end up with your cursor starting the video as part of the recording, but the rest goes fine. So that solved my particular problem.

Ah, workaround. As long as you have permission to have swiped the video, I guess that works :) Thanks for popping in to share.

Dave, I didn't have time to read your complete thread, but Wistia does let you do just about anything with the video, including autoplay at load. I know you can set autoplay in the Wistia interface, but I think you can also set it in the URL. Let me know if you're still stuck on this.

Hi Mike . . . Thanks for joining in. I don't have access to Wistia or any of its settings. I just know that the video does not autoplay when it comes up in the Transamerica window. The viewer must click on it to start it. I just know it was done with Wistia because it says that when I right-click on the vid window.

Dave,

I just got a chance to look at this. You should be able to force the video to autoplay by adding the "autoplay=true" variable to your embed url. Here's a sample: "//fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/g5pnf59ala?videoFoam=true&autoPlay=true" from this page: http://wistia.com/doc/iframe-embed-options

FYI, IOS devices will not autoplay no matter what you do.

Thanks,

Mike