How to make H5P interactive video autoplay ?

Submitted by wangxiaoyong1975 on Thu, 02/27/2025 - 05:49
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I have created an H5P interactive video. Currently, viewers need to click a link and then click the "interactive video" button to start watching, which is quite inconvenient. Is there a way to make the video start playing automatically when people click the link, without requiring them to click the "interactive video" button?

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BV52

Thu, 02/27/2025 - 17:40

Hi wangxiaoyong1975,

I believe I answered this in your other post: https://h5p.org/node/1520984

"There is an option to enable "Auto-play video" under "Behavioural settings" so that videos will auto-play. However, this is not 100% reliable because of browser security features. Most if not all new browser versions does not allow auto play unless you have already interacted with the page. This is a feature they added to address video advertisements on websites."

-BV

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vishwakarmayojana

Thu, 03/06/2025 - 09:05

To make your H5P interactive video autoplay, check if your platform has an autoplay option in the H5P settings. If embedding the video, try adding ?autoplay=1 to the URL and ensure browser permissions allow autoplay. Some browsers block autoplay unless the video is muted, so consider setting it to start without sound. If you have coding access, use JavaScript to trigger playback on page load, but note that some browsers may still require user interaction.

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otacke

Thu, 03/06/2025 - 18:52

Sorry, this looks like yet another AI reply that does not make sense. Please stop doing that.

There's an autoplay setting in the content type editor inside the "playback" options. Check that, and that is all that you can do. The video may still not play automatically, here's more on that: https://snordian.de/2023/02/12/i-checked-that-autoplay-checkbox-in-h5p-w...

Changing the URL will not have an effect, and you cannot embed it directly anyway. Browsers may block autoplay, that is correct, but it's not really related to a muted state (that you could not influence anyway).