Automatically Play Videos with Audio Despite Chromium Restrictions

The following Chromium flags are not yet supported on BrightSign players:

disable-user-media-security
allow-hidden-media-playback
autoplay-policy="no-user-gesture-required"

To automatically play videos with audio despite these Chromium autoplay restrictions, start your video with its audio muted and activate the audio shortly after video playback begins. This will work on a player’s browser (not in a Chrome browser).

Example

In the example below:

source is set to video.mp4
type is mp4
width is 640
height is 360
The audio is activated 100 milliseconds into the video

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <video id="myVideo" width="640" height="360" autoplay muted>
        <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

    <script>
        const videoElement = document.getElementById("myVideo");

        videoElement.addEventListener("canplaythrough", function() {
            setTimeout(function() {
                videoElement.muted = false;
            }, 100); // Adjust the delay (in milliseconds) if necessary
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Documentation

Automatically Play Videos with Audio Despite Chromium Restrictions

Example

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