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AliceKowalski-7
Community Member
8 years ago

Stop auto-play in embedded video - Rise

I have three iframe embedded videos, one on each tab of an interactive tabs block in Rise. During testing, once the section is loaded/displayed on the screen, all three videos start playing at the s...
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TimWaldron
Community Member
4 years ago

Same problem here. Managed to embed a video, but it autoplays. Can't figure out how to disable autoplay.
Tried custom HTML and the <video> tag, but Rise doesn't seem to accept it. 

I'm sure there must be a solution by now, that I am missing?

  • BobBachynsky's avatar
    BobBachynsky
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Nope 4+ years no progress.

    • TimWaldron's avatar
      TimWaldron
      Community Member
      4 years ago
      Bob Bachynsky

      Nope 4+ years no progress.

      Ah well... can't say that I'm surprised at this point, tbh.

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      TimWaldron
      Community Member
      4 years ago

      Good news everyone, I think I found a solution! 


      Apparently adding a "sandbox" to the iframe solves the problem:

      <iframe src="myurl.com/myvideo.mp4" allowfullscreen sandbox></iframe>

      sandbox - blocks all scripts and automations for the iframe-content

      allowfullscreen - enables optional fullscreen 

       

      Found it here: html - How to disable auto-play for local video in iframe - Stack Overflow
      Sandbox-documentation: HTML iframe sandbox Attribute (w3schools.com)

      Going to test a Scorm export now and test if the function continues to work on a e-learning platform. Update coming soon.

      @Articulate: Would highly appreciate it, if you could give this a test and if it really solves the problem, please add it to your software documentation asap... 



      Update 01:
      sandbox seems to be working fine! Sadly our platform seems to be blocking the "allowfullscreen" function. Will have to check that out next week. Probably something being blocked by sandbox, that still needs to be unblocked. 
      FYI a collection of sandbox attributes for iframes: HTML iframe sandbox Attribute (w3schools.com)