Upgrading or using the latest version of the Xibo Player for Windows I am no unable to get Youtube videos to autoplay. There are no issues with older player versions R201-201, I think it may be an issue with the new Chromium player. I am wondering if you have also run into this and have any work around to get youtube autoplay to work with the latest player version?
My current embedded code looks like this:
You must tell the Player to use the Edge browser to render Youtube content. Chromium doesn’t have the codecs required to show Youtube content, so we have to swap to a different browser for that.
Thanks for the reply Alex but that did not seem to work. The video still does not autoplay, the videos do play but you have to push the play button, with the R201 and R202 players they autoplay.
Hi Alex, I do also face the autoplay issue since I updated the Player. Will the snippet also work inside a custom module with a non YouTube video? So far I had no luck with <!-- BROWSER=edge -->.
I put this inside a custom module. When I visit the site with e.g. Firefox I have to allow the playback. In Edge, it starts automatically. So far so good.
But I am not sure where to put the snippet exactly to tell the Xibo Player it should autoplay.
If it’s a custom module then somewhere in the custom module code. I can’t be more specific I’m afraid because I don’t know how your module works.
Basically as long as the snippet is included in the HTML that ends up being send to the Player it should work. Keep in mind it’s old Edge not new Edge, so testing in Chromium based Edge isn’t diagnostic.