Won't fix (1.21.0.4) Web browser autoplay yt video

[RandomVAMUser]

You can't really use embedded youtube video as background anymore (without autoplay).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PLACEVIDEOIDHERE?autoplay=1

Autoplay stopped working and you need to manually hit play (autoplay works fine on v1.20.77.13).
This is quite counter intuitive if interactions are disabled or web atom is hidden.

Are there any alternatives to autoplay=1 ?

 

[VamMoose]

Having this problem too, which is a shame, because I have a number of scenes built for MetaChat that feature a youtube "jukebox" of sorts. They still work for anyone on 1.19, but for me, I have to click on the player now. Kind of annoying.

 

[RandomVAMUser]

not a bug, it's a feature

I don't use chrome, but it appears that policy change was from 2018 or so? ?
Well damn, how old was previous 2.0.0 browser? I can see it used Chromium 64.0.3282.119 (from 2017), guess that explains it.

Anyway... Thanks for info.

Using mute=1 works, to autoplay animated videos as background.
Sadly rip background music players, time to add audio files.

 

[VamMoose]

Well balls. I mean having it autoplay muted kinda still requires people to go up and unmute it, which is still a problem. But I guess the policy is only for certain chromium browser versions

The other problem is if people start resorting to putting copywrite music in scenes.

 

[VamMoose]

Alright, thanks, I'll have to built a MetaChat compatible juke-box then ;p
But then I imagine it would be on the weighty side since it's gonna have a bunch of songs on there. I'll probably have to upload this once as an individual Hub asset, then reference it in all my maps to keep file duplication to a minimum.

 

[VamMoose]

I am not yet familiar with how to create .assetbundles. I saw this guide but I don't know if it is the best one to follow.

 

[VamMoose]

Cheers for this!