Video autoPlay is not working chrome and safari? - google-chrome

Question

I want to make the video autoplay without any user gesture in reactjs. I know as per recent google and apple web video policy we cannot autoplay a video having audio without user gesture.But i have seen few websites which still autoplays the video across modern web browsers also.
I came across many questions related to this issue on stackoverflow but none helped me.
Here is what i have tried.
Try 1.
<video id="miniVideo" preLoad="yes" autoPlay="autoplay" loop width="100%" height="auto" playsInline>
<source src="/mini/video/cooper.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="/mini/video/cooper.webm" type="video/webm" />
</video>
Try 2.
<iframe playsInline id="miniVideo" src="/mini/video/cooper.mp4" width="100%"
height="400px"
allow="autoplay; fullscreen"></iframe>
Try 3.
Script:
componentDidMount(){
var videoTimer = document.getElementById("miniVideo");
videoTimer.play();
}
HTML:
<video id="miniVideo" width="100%" height="100%">
<source src="/video/cooper.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<p>This browser does not support the video element.</p>
</video>
Your help will be well appreciated.Thanks

Answer 1

I am not sure about Safari but Chrome has changed the autoplay policy. Look here:https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
In order to autoplay, add muted attributed to video tag.
For example:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
class Player extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
isVideoMuted: true
};
}
handleMuteState = () => {
this.setState(prevState => ({
isVideoMuted: !prevState.isVideoMuted
}));
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<video muted={this.state.isVideoMuted} src="./video.mp4" />
<button onClick={this.handleMuteState}>{this.state.isVideoMuted ? 'Unmute' : 'Mute'}</button >
</div>
);
}
}
export default Player;