Autoplay on mobile

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johnnyboyburnett 11 years, 2 months ago

Hi Foliovision support,

I have the FV player working great on my wordpress site using the autoplay feature, but when you pull up the page on a mobile device the autoplay is not working. I don’t have a splash screen activated as far as I can tell.

Any suggestions

Thanks
John

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Martin 11 years ago

Hello John,

mobile devices don’t allow us to autoplay the video. This is due to the bandwidth limits of the mobile internet providers. The restrictions is hardwired to the browsers – user needs to click (touch to play) the video element before any script can work with it.

Thanks,
Martin

johnnyboyburnett 11 years ago

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the quick response. Is this true with any player then with mobile devices?

Thanks
John

Martin 11 years ago

Hello John,

it applies to any player using HTML5. Here’s what Apple says about it: “In Safari on iOS (for all devices, including iPad), where the user may be on a cellular network and be charged per data unit, preload and autoplay are disabled.” — https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009523-CH5-SW1

It may work on some Android phones, as there is more discussion about it, for example here somebody found it doesn’t work in Android KitKat (4.4): https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63795

Thanks,
Martin

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