# Autoplay suddenly not working on live and recorded streams

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [October 8, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867 "2017-10-08T11:07:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/1 "2017-10-08T11:07:11Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/2 "2017-10-08T19:24:02Z")

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

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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/3 "2017-10-09T09:55:53Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/4 "2017-10-09T18:25:32Z")

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

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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/5 "2017-10-11T17:56:05Z")

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

Thanks

Alan

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Powell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gary\_Powell](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gary_Powell)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/6 "2017-11-17T16:42:13Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![jesus\_cerezuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@jesus\_cerezuela](https://community.wowza.com/u/jesus_cerezuela)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/autoplay-suddenly-not-working-on-live-and-recorded-streams/49867/7 "2018-09-17T10:24:25Z")

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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…