HTML5 video player has been showing controls only in iOS 12.x.x even when the controls are set to false in video tag but all other browsers are working fine and don't show the controls.
The scenario is that whenever page loads we autoplay the video on banner but if battery saver feature is turned on then it will not autoplay the video shows the play button with initial thumbnail (only in iOS 12.x.x) while in other browsers it shows the initial thumbnail of the video without any play button.
My code looks like this:
<video id="header-video" autoplay="true" controls="false" playsinline="true" muted="true" loop="true">
// sources here
</video>
I am looking for the solution to hide this play icon (shown in attached image) but if that's not possible then is there any solution through which I can know that power saving mode is turned on and hide the video (because I have a background for backward compatibility).
I've given a look as well, and it seems as many CSS and JavaScript solutions out there don't work anymore, because since iOS 12 there is a new way of handling videos (https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8p4tpm/ios_12_to_include_custom_html_video_player/).
Now I came up with this idea, which as a purist I don't like, but it might do the trick: A video thumbnail (as image) overlayed over the video, that gets hidden, once the video is started.
You could have a standard thumbnail with title, or dynamically generate it (see http://usefulangle.com/post/46/javascript-get-video-thumbnail-image-jpeg-png as an idea).
Hope this helps!
I know this was asked over one year ago but I wanted to share the solution for others.
What I did was, I removed the autoplay attribute from the video-element and because I still wanted it to behave as with the attribute I added following js.
const video = document.getElementById('video-input');
video.play();
Setting autoplay to false and controls to false did work for me:
<video
src='xxxx'
muted
className='landing__empty-video'
loop
playsInline
autoPlay={false}
controls={false}
preload='auto'
type='video/mp4'
/>
Bear in mind this was React, in html case it would be "false".
After trying several solutions on the internet and without success, I eventually managed to hide the video interface elements in autoplay when the save mode is enabled.
document.getElementById("hello").setAttribute("autoplay", "autoplay");
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<video id="hello" playsinline preload muted loop>
<source src="https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</body>
</html>
https://jsfiddle.net/joelsilvaaaaaa/yb5s23xq/3/
Related
So I've looked over the apple docs and checked that my video will play inline (I am storing the video on s3).
My video on https://themobilecigarlounge.com will play on all devices and browsers with the exception of apple. It will play but not until you click a link and then go back to the homepage.
<video class="video-background" id="backgroundVideo" playsinline="playsinline" autoplay="autoplay" muted="muted"
loop="loop">
<source src="https://cigarlounge.s3.amazonaws.com/Cigar-Rolling-Suit-medium-new.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="https://cigarlounge.s3.amazonaws.com/Cigar-Rolling-Suit-medium.mov" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
Is the code I am inserting it with. What am I missing here? I have all the tags, I stripped the video of its audio track and I have it muted.
This turned out to be an issue with the Meteor framework I was using. I do not understand the root of the problem but it is some sort of rendering issue. I noticed where in one site this function was working perfectly the <video> tag was within a {{#if}} helper.
So I experimented and put the video within an if block that became true 100ms after the page rendered.... This solved the problem but seems hacky. Seems to be some sort of issue with the blaze templates rendering.
In our website coverr.co we offer free stock videos for any commercial use.
One of the coolest things in Coverr is allowing our users to see the video running as a background video in our site. As an example: https://coverr.co/videos/Beach
If you'll access this page using FF or Safari the video will autoplay, no problem. However since Chrome's latest policy change on April 2018, autoplay has been inconsistant on Chrome.
We've added the "autoplay" and "muted" flags (although all of our video footage is sound-less), as required by the new spec, but with no luck. It would sometimes play and sometimes just stay frozen until the user actively start playback.
Can someone please help us solve this mystery?
Thanks in advance!
(1) Cannot reproduce your issue (on Chrome version 69.0.3497.100):
This autoplays and loops correctly:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video width="100%" autoplay loop>
<source src="https://storage.googleapis.com/coverr-main/mp4/Beach.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</body>
</html>
(2) Your cover/poster image is blocking the video (which may be playing underneath).
Try removing the cover image. Your frozen frame (not playing) is actually the poster image. Test by removing cover image code (eg: <div class="poster hidden"> and related).
PS: If you right click poster image and choose "show controls", the displayed "play" button will start playback.
Found the problem, and it was related to the fact we've used angular 2.
Apparently Angular 2 has a problem to add the muted meta tag properly.
The full answer can be found here, but basically you need to use Angular's onloadedmetadata attribute:
onloadedmetadata="this.muted = true"
and in general, this is how it should look like:
<video onloadedmetadata="this.muted=true" autoplay>
<source src="myVideo.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
Important comment:
We've also added oncanplay="this.play()" for additional playback robustness.
So in the future we can handle play() promise and show play button if autoplay was rejected by some another reason
Additional important comment:
Following #VC.One's question, just wanted to clarify that there is a way to verify or at least get notified of playback (taken from the article in my question):
var promise = document.querySelector('video').play();
if (promise !== undefined) {
promise.then(_ => {
// Autoplay started!
}).catch(error => {
// Autoplay was prevented.
// Show a "Play" button so that user can start playback.
});
}
but it doesn't make sure that the video actually plays, and so you might get and error even though everything is legit. And of course, adding a play button can work, but it really takes out the "sting" of what we're trying to do - autoplay a muted video in the site's background.
Basically all you need it to have both autoplay and muted injected properly, and apparently in Angular 2 it's not such a trivial task...
I have working code for a video element within my site thats fully functioning on ios 9/10 and all the normal browsers (chrome/ff/ie) etc.
I've noticed that since the ios 11 update the videos no longer play or even work at all. They appear as a blank box with the controls but pressing play does nothing and opening the video full screen does nothing.
Here is my relatively simple code
<video playsinline onclick="play()" controls autoplay
controlsList="nodownload">
<source src="assets/images/video_im.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
I've tried different variations of using playsinline="true" and controls="true". They have no effect.
I've tried to google the issue but there seems to be nothing except a podcast taking about ios 11 removing html5 video support, surely there is a fix?
Any insight/help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
It looks like the following code:
<video>
<source src="path/to/video.mp4">
</video>
stopped working on ios11 (with many other features too...). I confirm that source tag did work on ios9 here). Try placing the src="path/to/video.mp4" into the video tag directly, it should work on ios11.
A working example taken from webkit.org post on New video Policies for iOS:
<div id="either-gif-or-video">
<video src="image.mp4" autoplay loop muted playsinline></video>
<img src="image.gif">
</div>
Safari on MacOS seems to have a similar problem, maybe it's easier to test there. Looks like we lost the multiple source feature tho :(
I had a similar problem with videos not playing on Safari. The problem was my web server. I moved the video to another hosting server, loaded it from there and it worked.
e.g.
instead of:
<video src='/myVideo.mp4' controls> </video>
do something like this:
<video src='https://anotherServer.com/myVideo.mp4' controls> </video>
I have a full width background video with autoplay and loop propreties and works really good on desktop but in mobile video dont show and dont start... just show a black screen
I need to fix this for mobile, if that's not possible to put video working on mobile I can put a background image on mobile
<video autoplay loop muted autobuffer preload="auto" poster="poster.png" class="background-video">
<source src="video.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'>
<source src="video.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
<source src="video.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4D401E, mp4a.40.2"'>
</video>
adding playsinline attribute to the video tag fixed the issue for me.
according to a good google search, on mobile the Video element falls back to a poster...
be mind full of video size so they user will not encore massive data usage charges and to maintain a responsive site.
<video playsinline autoplay loop muted id="myVideo"></video>
The Autoplay tag on mobile is generally not supported - this is to avoid users incurring data transfer costs as video files are large and can eat into data limits.
The poster tag should work fine, however, as I think you noted in your last comment.
Turns out the video actually plays - but it's weird how that happens!
First of all, I'm testing on Android 5.1.1.
Alright, here's the situation:
On load, the video doesn't play but instead displays the fallback poster image.
I had given up on the video thing, but when I was navigating the site and at some point decided I wanted to go back Home, I navigated to the Homepage and the video was playing! I tried refreshing the page, and the video didn't play on load but instead got the poster image!
What could be happening?
I figured just clicking the phone's back button to navigate to the homepage still didn't play the video, but explicitly clicking the home link did!
So I gave it another shot - refreshed the page, video didn't play, clicked the home link and the video started playing on load!
This is the structure of my home link: <img src="path-to-logo" />
Can somebody explain what could be happening?
On the front page of this website, there is a sticky post titled "National Radio Advertising Campaign ForACURE" which contains the following HTML:
<embed type="audio/x-wav" src="http://www.foracure.org.au/wp-content/uploads/FOR-A-CURE-RADIO-Daniel-45sec.mp3" autoplay="false" height="20" width="200" autostart="false">
However, when I load this website in Chrome v31.0.1650.57 m, the audio plays automatically, even though both autoplay and autostart are set to false.
Is there a better cross browser method of embedding this audio?
Chrome doesn't seem to understand true and false.
Use autostart="1" and autostart="0" instead.
Source: (Google Groups: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LkA8FoBoleU)
<video width="320" height="240" controls autoplay>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Remove autoplay
if you want to disable auto playing video.
Just set using JS as follows:
<script>
var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo");
vid.autoplay = false;
vid.load();
</script>
Set true to turn on autoplay. Set false to turn off autoplay.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_av_prop_autoplay
None of the video settings posted above worked in modern browsers I tested (like Firefox) using the embed or object elements in HTML5. For video or audio elements they did stop autoplay. For embed and object they did not.
I tested this using the embed and object elements using several different media types as well as HTML attributes (like autostart and autoplay). These videos always played regardless of any combination of settings in several browsers. Again, this was not an issue using the newer HTML5 video or audio elements, just when using embed and object.
It turns out the new browser settings for video "autoplay" have changed. Firefox will now ignore the autoplay attributes on these tags and play videos anyway unless you explicitly set to "block audio and video" autoplay in your browser settings.
To do this in Firefox I have posted the settings below:
Open up your Firefox Browser, click the menu button, and select "Options"
Select the "Privacy & Security" panel and scroll down to the "Permissions" section
Find "Autoplay" and click the "Settings" button. In the dropdown change it to block audio and video. The default is just audio.
Your videos will NOT autoplay now when displaying videos in web pages using object or embed elements.
Just change the mime type to: type="audio/mpeg", this way chrome will honor the autostart="false" parameter.
I had assumed that autoplay="false" applied to all other browsers, besides Chrome, so I added
autoplay="false" autostart="0"
to each video tag. With six videos on the page it was a tower of bable (didn't work).
The solution is to remove autoplay entirely and just add
autostart="0"
to each video tag. This worked for Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
Apparently the lack of an autoplay attribute is sufficient for the other browsers.
This will prevent browser from auto playing audio.
HTML
<audio type="audio/wav" id="audio" autoplay="false" autostart="false"></audio>
jQuery
$('#audio').attr("src","path_to_audio.wav");
$('#audio').play();
<embed ... autostart="0">
Replace false with 0
I removed "autoplay" and "autostart", it worked
This is my code:
<video width="427" height="240" controls >
<source src="/abc.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
add attribute controls to video tag. It worked on my code
the below codes helped me with the same problem.
Let me know if it helped.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<audio controls>
<source src="YOUR AUDIO FILE" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</body>
</html>
The problem is your plugin. To solve this is to only enter this address:
chrome://flags/#enable-NPAPI
Click activate NPAPI, and finally restart at the bottom of the page.