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Videos to Automatically Play in Rise
Is there a way to have videos automatically start to play in Rise when the user reaches that section of the session?
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tyotoys link worked w/ no audio as you mentioned.
That worked - but are you saying that you have to click on all those settings for each new site/course the user experiences? If so, there is no way my end users will do that. I just want to be able to publish a course and have the end user have a video automatically play on certain modules.
I think for now I'll go through the steps in creating an animated GIF to yield a "video" for my end-users. Would be nice though to actually have a video w/ sound play but sounds like there are too many security layers on devices that may prevent that. I appreciate you sending along these 2 resources.
Yes well I think they would need to enable that per site, not each course, as long as they're all on the same domain. I'm pretty sure video playing (with audio) needs to be user-initiated. Its actually much easier to get autoplay videos with the sound muted, which is essentially the same as a gif, but filesize would be much smaller, usually. One more test if you don't mind- in my testing this background video file played in all browsers, but it is set to be muted.
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Hi Phil - it did not auto play for me in Chrome. What did you select in Chrome to enable that to play automatically?
I had to look it up again as its not straightforward- info here https://championcr.com/topic/enable-auto-play/
you need to follow those steps when you're on the site/page in question.
Rise team - is this going to ever be an option for us users of your products? It appears the masses have spoken. Attached is a screen shot of Video Autoplay on my iPhone. Apple knows a thing or two about user experience and they allow the user to control that feature. Please do the same. If you're not, please let us all know as this threat has been going on for years. Thank you.
That only applies to video previews in Apple's own app, the challenge for Rise is the autoplay of audio and video support will vary greatly for users, as there is a wide range of devices and browsers that will tend to block autoplay (due to those annoying video ads). I was testing some autoplay with some js, would you be willing to see if this autoplays for you when you pull it up- its just an audio file with a quick image. In Firefox it played for me, but I had to enable it in my Chrome browser, I'd be curious if others can share what they experience:
https://theme-360.com/rise/autoplay1.html
Adding my voice. We need auto play. Our storyline files are too big, so we have to break them into smaller pieces and host them on Rise. I'd prefer a single continuous story instead of having to pause periodically to hit play again and again.
Would love auto plays for embeded moving illustrations, not true videos. I'd like my graphic to animate as a feature, not as something they need to actively watch - so making them click play in this situation is overkill for a simple moving illustration.
Luckily you can upload animated SVG images in Rise for this purpose.
Can you please share the GIF workaround instructions? Does that require special software? Thank you.
Hi Susan, the tool depends on the footage.
If you like to change:
a video into an animated gif - I'm using: premiere pro
a row of stills, graphics, pics... - I'm using: photoshop
I create my animated gifs using Photoshop. And here is a YouTube video on how to do it:
Another use case scenario is now that we can do mini-animations that require an mp4, it would be great to have the option to have those autoplay. It looks stupid otherwise to have a play button for a two second animation that is just there to give movement to the page. Maybe this has already been implemented and I'm just not seeing it...Adding my voice to the chorus...
Hello Cristina! Do the mini-animations you create include audio? If not, you can try converting them into a GIF instead like Tim mentioned here as a workaround.
I'll take note of this use case and pass it on to our engineering team. Thanks for adding your voice!
+1
please provide the ability for us to choose to autoplay or notI choose a workaround and create an animated Gif out of a movie, this works well ;-)
