Dacast Streaming Platform Tutorial: Video Autoplay Workaround

By Dylan Schneibolk

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Dylan Schneibolk

Dylan is a Marketing Coordinator at AmpLive, a live streaming distribution platform and partner of Dacast's online video platform.

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    Despite the simplicity of the features, different sites have different rules around video autoplay. Today, we’re going to talk about some autoplay policies and what you should do about them.

    What is Video Autoplay?

    Autoplay is a feature that allows a video to start to play automatically whenever someone visits a website that has the player embedded on it. 

    If you’re using Dacast, you can activate “autoplay” in the “Publish Settings” section of your back office.

    Dacast’s New Video Autoplay Policy

    With the release of Chrome 66 in April, both Chrome and Safari have now moved towards stricter autoplay policies.

    These changes prevent websites from playing audio and video with audio, without a visitor’s consent. These guidelines are aimed at improving the user experience while giving greater control of media playback back to the viewer.

    What Changed with Chrome’s Autoplay Policies?

    • Muted autoplay is always allowed.
    • Autoplay with sound is allowed if:

    Developers are allowed to selectively enable and disable autoplay on various browsers. Browsers are able to determine if autoplay is allowed depending on if the user visits the page often.

    What Should You Do?

    To allow autoplay you can add allow=”autoplay” on your iframe embed code.

    Take a look a the examples below:

    Embed code with no video autoplay allowed:

    “`<iframe src=”//iframe.dacast.com/b/104301/f/537468″ width=”590″ height=”431″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>“`

    Embed code with video autoplay allowed:

    “`<iframe src=”//iframe.dacast.com/b/104301/f/537468″ width=”590″ height=”431″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” allow=”autoplay” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>“`

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