Video no longer auto-playing on page load

Beaver Builder
1

We have a video at the top of our homepage that would auto-play when the page loads on desktop. It worked until about three weeks ago, and now, there’s a play button that users need to click to watch the video.

The video is embedded using the standard video module in Beaver Builder.

Any ideas on why auto-play is no longer working or how to remedy the issue? I fear it may be due to some Beaver Builder or brow

2

You would need to share the URL in order to troubleshoot properly.

It could be you are lazy loading elements?
It could be blocked by a policy in your browser.

3

Thanks for your reply! Here is the URL where the video is embedded: https://impactassets.org/

If you have any ideas on how to remedy the auto-play issue via Beaver Builder that would be a huge help.

4

This is not a beaver Builder issue.

This is most likely a policy issue.
See here:
[What are the limitations of video autoplay? – Out of the Sandbox
https://help.outofthesandbox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000661568-What-are-the-limitations-of-video-autoplay

If I load this mp4 in my Chrome browser, it auto-plays.
If I load this mp4 in my MS Edge browser, it does not auto-play.

https://impactassets.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Impact-Assets-_-IA-Animation-ATOM25054-1080.mp4

I would also add the video to YouTube, and embed it instead of using a local copy of the file. You could try to use a basic iframe instead of the video module, and include the autoplay=1 paramter, like this

<iframe src="path-to-you-tube.mp4" frameBorder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowFullScreen="" name="fitvid0"></iframe>

or

<iframe src="path-to-you-tube.mp4?autoplay=1" allow="autoplay"></iframe>