'We've updated Chrome 66 to temporarily remove the autoplay policy for the Web Audio API. He added that the change wouldn't stop Chrome from silencing most websites' autoplay videos and audio.

Google product manager John Pallett said that Chrome 66 is being temporarily updated to remove the change as it applies to the Web Audio API used by app developers. But it's having the unexpected effect of stopping web apps and games from playing audio, much to the annoyance of developers. Unless users had whitelisted a site or previously interacted with it, Chrome's blocking feature stops one of the most irritating elements of web browsing: the sudden playing of loud videos. But the company is partially rolling back the change after it was discovered to be breaking a number of web games, apps, and interactive art projects. I hope it'll solve any autoplay related issues happening after the new strict policy deployed by google.Google pleased users of the world's most popular web browser last month with the release of Chrome 66, which included a feature that blocked the autoplaying of videos with sound. Otherwise, instruct them to Allow Sound permission from your site settings, that will also grant access to play media with or without sound permanently.Īfter two days of continuous searching and before giving up the hope to autoplay audio/video with/without sound I have come up with these two solution that simply works without any user gestures. If for some reason users don't want to give their microphone permission then only you can do to convince them the fact that you only need this permission for playing media automatically for them, it has nothing to do with their microphone because you are stopping it as soon as the media starts playing. It works because as long as you are capturing anything then you are allowed to play everything. It will ask users for their Microphone permission and they have to click Allow once then you are permitted to play anything with / without sound. When embedding youtube or vimeo add ?autoplay=1, and in vimeo also autopause=0 to the url like this: ).

It does an AMAZING job at downsizing videos! If using this method, you can download Miro Video Converter Use it to encode your video. When using html5 video tag, I noticed that video has to be mute to autoplay.Add allow='autoplay ' to your iframe like this.

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