Video Autoplay Not Working

Jean,

I tested in Storyline 360  (latest build)  and confirmed the following:

1. The video plays automatically while in Preview Mode

2. The video does not automatically start in Review 360 as you mentioned

Solution:  Set the slide that comes before the video to advance only when the user clicks a button (e.g., Next).

https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-and-Studio-Videos-Don-t-Autoplay-When-Slides-Advance-Automatically

Richard

>Slide 1 is set to automatically advance

without audio - > this is the problem - no user interaction, no autoplay of video with audio

you can add on slide 1  a "silent" audio -> storyline player adds the necessary play button on start of the course

Thanks, Richard. This did the trick. Thanks for finding the workaround for me. You're a peach! 

Thanks, Jurgen. I wound up testing Richard's solution first, which worked, but yours seems like it would have worked. How would you add silent audio? Add audio with a little silence from the top of the audio editor? Then use the auto advance into the video set to autoplay?

I will say, I learned a ton of functionality in this little project and appreciate your help!

For anyone reading this in the future, I made a ton of discoveries doing this. One of the key ones beyond getting this functionality to cooperate was finding out if you add the video play bar to the video it gives you the option of a moving transcript on the side, rather than the side panel reading the notes panel as a static rendering of the whole transcript, which I suppose would be useful if you just wanted to read what was in the movie. I didn't know that Storyline did this. It's one more nifty #accessiblity feature Storyline gives us. Thanks, dev team for adding such helpful features.

you have to add the silence audio on a layer - nothing more

result: whenever necessary, storyline adds the play button -> autoplay will be work afterwards

that's very important if you use on the first slide "Video from Websites..." (Youtube, Vimeo, ...)

Jean,

You are very welcome. Glad it worked for you. As you can see, there is  always more than one way to accomplish something  in Storyline 360. It’s a great tool.  Thanks Juergen for adding additional information to the conversation. By helping each other, we can make this community stronger.

Richard

Super. That's easier than I thought. I learned the hard way how to get rid of the opening blank black screen when a project starts by adding the first slide or an image into the player. I wish that was a little more intuitive. My students are always baffled by that. 

I appreciate your help and the sample.