Autoplay suddenly not working on live and recorded streams

Wowza Player
1

Overnight without any changes, autoplay has stopped working on all my streams. Has something changed in the player?

2

This is an update to Wowza Player to help prevent playback issues in browsers that are changing their autoplay policies. More information can be found in our release notes.

https://www.wowza.com/docs/latest-wowza-player-updates

3

Thanks Kevin - great response.

It is a bit sudden and drastic - especially for multichannel players where viewers like to channel-hop.

Previously we could select autoplay true or false in the player - Big Brother has taken over, I guess :-0

Do you know (I am pretty sure there isn’t) but just asking - is there any way to enable autoplay in the wowza player for browsers that support it?

4

We have an article on how to enable and/or disable autoplay at the URL below.

https://www.wowza.com/docs/getting-started-with-wowza-player#builder

5

Did you disable autoplay in all previous versions also? I don’t seem to be able to get it to autoplay in any version - guess I had better read:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/getting-started-with-wowza-player#builder

Thanks

Alan

6

Autoplay still doesn’t work after changing the autoplay option to true.

Tested in IE 11 and Chrome Version 62 (64 Bit).

This would be a for a specific use case sending a stream to a digital signage system.

Thanks

Gary

7

Hi Kevin, I don’t find the article, I click the link a see the articule where says that autoplay has beed disabled in all versions…