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In my project I need to autoplay a HTML5 video in the browser when the page is loaded. I have tried a several javascript solutions but none of them work.

I read that the android browser blocks autoplay to prevent downloading a lot of data. Can be this blocking feature be turned off in browser/chrome/operation system settings?

I cannot find any working solution for how to enable autoplay. I have searched plenty of stackoverflow posts and many other sites ...

I am using android 4.1.1.

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    To close voters: this question seems legit. Though it's the dev asking, the question itself is not about development, but about browser/system settings, and thus of interest to "normal users" as well (as long as Peter is not asking about doing this from his app in a programatical way, of course).
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    Dec 17, 2013 at 9:31

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Bad news it seems. Bug report on Google code

The most relevant post is this:

Yes. It is as design. "autoplay" is disabled for Chrome for Android

It seems that Android 4+ changed the requirements for the play() method to require user interaction.

Article on this issue

It's worth nothing that many comments refer to getting it to work with a hack/workaround, only to find it works on some devices and not others. Stack Overflow question on the coding side. In this example the answer mentions:

sample code that works on HTC and Samsung, but not Galaxy Nexus 4.1 (requires user interaction to play)

This seems to suggest, even with a workaround you have no guarantee it will actually work on a particular device / version of Android.

Apple have imposed the same restriction in Safari and iOS in general.

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This can be turned on/off in Chrome using flags. This is on the user end though and cannot be change in the browser from a website or app.

You can also do this in your own app using the api for webview or websettings and make "getMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false)" it is by default set to "(true)"

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebSettings.html

In chrome you must go to chrome://flags then go down about 3 screens to

Disable gesture requirement for media playback. Android

Disable user gesture requirement for playing media elements. Activating this will allow autoplay to work.

disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playback

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