Prevent autoplay of

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does someone know how to prevent Chrome and Safari from autoplaying videos? I am looking for an attribute or style I can incorporate into our website, not a browser extension! We have a few videos on the same page and in Chrome they just all start auto playing for some users while in Safari they kind of autoplay, but they don't start at the same time. They all have sound, so I had expected none of them to autoplay, but apparently that is not the case (at least not for all users).

Thanks!

I think your question gets answered on this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19664622/disable-html5-video-autoplay — PixelWelt, Sep 18 '20 at 20:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '20 at 15:04

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Use autostart=0 and autostart=1

HTML embed autoplay="false", but still plays automatically

https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0LkA8FoBoleU/?hl=en&gpf=%23!topic%2Fchrome%2FLkA8FoBoleU

answered Oct 10 '20 at 15:04

How can you have both? It feels like this answer requires a bit of additional explanation. – Richard Hunter Oct 10 '20 at 17:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '21 at 07:05

Make sure you use the video or audio HTML5 elements, and NOT object or embed. I also had this problem using the latter HTML elements and the ONLY way to stop them from autoplaying was to change the browser settings. The reason is, because object and embed use a 3rd party plugin or player when playing your media, while video and audio are native to the browser.

If you want to stop them from playing anyway on just your box, below are the settings for Firefox:

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.

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