Vyond video in Rise lesson

Hi! 

I don't believe this is a Rise issue but rather a browser feature... Autoplay policies are different for each browser.

• Google Chrome: Chrome has specific criteria for allowing autoplay with sound. These include:
  • User Interaction: Autoplay with sound is permitted on domains where the user has previously interacted.
  • Previous Media Playback: If the user has played a video with sound on an active tab before, autoplay with sound is allowed.
  • Mobile Engagement: For mobile users, if they have added the site to their home screen or installed the site’s Progressive Web App (PWA), autoplay with sound is permitted.
  • Media Engagement Index (MEI): Chrome uses a metric called the Media Engagement Index to determine if videos should autoplay with sound. The MEI calculates this based on various factors, including the history of the user's interactions with media on the site.
• Mozilla Firefox: Firefox has a stricter autoplay policy. It generally blocks autoplay unless the audio is muted (or has its volume set to 0), the user has interacted with the site or the video element before, or the site has been explicitly whitelisted by the user.
• Microsoft Edge: Starting with version 92, Edge follows a similar approach to Chrome, disabling autoplay with sound for all videos by default, while allowing some based on domains that users have interacted with previously.

Hi KevinHulsey as MichellePick362 has outlined, this is a browser policy, and has been for quite some time now. There isn't any point in trying to find workarounds for this stuff, as any workaround quickly gets blocked by the browser vendors.

You will see in some applications such as Storyline, this can, sort of, be made possible as it is a single page application. The initial "click" from the user to interact with the course then allows media to auto play, as the user has interacted with the content. I don't think the same has been done for Rise, as it's a little more complicated, in that, the user tends to be scrolling media into view, rather than navigating to a new slide where the media is located. This can add complexities, that the engineers may have considered more risk than reward.