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Autoplay for embedded Youtube videos in Storyline
Hello,
I am looking for a solution for Storyline 360 to allow autoplay of an embedded youtube video.
This training is an existing storyline 360 build which has other embedded youtube videos that I was able to embed the autoplay code about 6 months ago.
One video within this training needs updated. Unforunately, no matter where I add the autoplay code into the updated video, it will not autoplay when viewing in Reivew 360.
My web browser settings are not disabling the autoplay function as the other embedded videos are autoplaying when the presentation is reviewed.
Here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIvJT9x9bo
Any ideas?
Thank you!
Review 360 has autoplay NOT enabled for Youtube, VIMEO and other external video platforms
-> in the iframe, which embeds the whole course is missing:allow="autoplay"this is the embed code with autoplay enabled for your video
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqIvJT9x9bo?autoplay=1" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen/>
but on Review 360 there is no autoplay for youtube videos possible
Great! It worked! Thank you so much!!
I'm having similar issues with autoplay not working either in Review 360 or when I publish my course. The embed code is:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qdkycKlCosQ?si=rw2hrDyt59gesdgN" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
Any ideas what I'm missing please?
Review 360 is wrong configured - in the outer iframe
allow="autoplay"
is missing
you can do nothing to solve the problem
Even if you get it autoplay to work for you, sad experience says it isn't going to work for all your users, especially those people using Chrome. Chrome has a feature that disables autoplay, meant to stop ads from autoplaying.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/
I have learned to accept that autoplay is a hill not worth dying on.
Thanks for the feedback, guess the users will just have to go old-school and click the video to watch it!
Note that if you are using Chrome, which a lot of folks use, you have to add &mute=1 to the embed code. I just had to dig on this same problem today - Chrome updated their policies.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqIvJT9x9bo?&mute=1&autoplay=1" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Note that this does work on Chrome (and you don't need all the other junk they give you in the embed code). To get the ads not to show up, you can add a loop to the video to just keep playing, which I had to do today in Storyline as well. The solution is to add a playlist with the same ID as the video. You can also remove the controls if you like. Here is the code with those components.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqIvJT9x9bo?&mute=1&autoplay=1&controls=0&loop=1&playlist=vqIvJT9x9bo" allowfullscreen></iframe>
do you have a link to the "changes" of Autoplay policy in Chrome
As far as I know, the last update was in April 2018
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay
That is the most recent update, and unmuted autoplay is only allowed with some specific parameters. I was able to add everything I shared above to a YouTube video embedded in Storyline and have it work in Review (with &mute=1).
