Chrome Autoplay Policy - Chrome 76

20
votes

I'm building a kiosk media which runs on Chrome that plays video with audio. I know that chrome by default only allows autoplay for videos with muted props.

And i know that i WAS able to override this by enabling a flag in chrome via chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

I have just updated to Chrome 76 and this flag seems to be gone and the autoplaying of video doesn't seem to work anymore!

Any idea how do i overcome this?

[Chrome 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)] Mac OS Mojave

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4 Answers

40
votes

I just spoke to some developers from Google about this issue recently. I submitted a bug. They have been very helpful.

Even though autoplay policy chrome flag was removed in https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1593800, you can still run Chrome with a specific autoplay policy from the command line.

Autoplay policy that does not require any user gesture.

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required

They say this command will stay, so that's good but even better Chrome allows you to always enable autoplay by explicitly allowing a website to make sound "Site Settings > Sound"

Good luck.

7
votes

You can use command line code to execute chrome in kiosk mode with no-user-gesture-required:

google-chrome-stable --kiosk http://google.com/ --new-window --start-maximized --incognito  --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies &
0
votes

According to the new policy of Chrome:
Chrome has prevented any sound, I also met this problem.
I just add this trigger click to my script page and it's really working correctly:

$('body).trigger('click');
-2
votes

I just add a div in my page and call click trigger on load page! it works correctly! 

<div id="test"></div>
<script>
    $(function(){
        $("#test").trigger("click");
    })
</script>