“Autoplay” requires playback sync so to pause/stop a playing video when another one on the page starts. Older browser versions will fall back to non-autoplaying media. Iframely will therefore try and mute media playback on mobile for all publishers that allow such control (see below).įor publishers that don’t provide such mute control, Iframely will simply fall back to non-autoplaying media variants.Īdditionally, WebKit has released the support of intersection observers in iOS 12.2. Most mobile platforms require a user gesture to autoplay a media with sound. Please consider &mute=1 and have all playback muted if most of your visitors are first-timers with no prior domain interactions.įor development and debugging purposes, you may also opt to change Autoplay-Policy via developer switches in chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy. If autoplay isn’t possible, most media publishers will simply catch a JavaScript error, and will fall back to their non-autoplaying variants by themselves. In other words, whether a media will autoplay or not depends on your site’s user experience and engagement of an individual user. Autoplay with sound is allowed if user has interacted with the domain (click, tap, etc.) or if MEI threshold has been crossed. In the window that opens, click the 'Show options' link, and check the corresponding boxes next to 'Loop this video,' 'Autoplay this video,' or both. It is calculated individually for your web domain. If you’d like your embedded video to autoplay or loop, go to the video you'd like to embed and click the 'Share' button in the video player. If we cannot run visibility checks, Iframely will simply fall back to non-autoplaying media variants.Ĭhrome’s Autoplay Policy checks Media Engagement Index (MEI). The intention is to be gentle on end-user’s CPU and not to render your site sluggish with constant synchronous visibility checks. We deliberately do not fall back to the old school of visibility detections for the legacy browsers. Most modern browsers support the observers. Iframely will return a regular player instead so you can safely make API calls targeting only muted video.įirst and foremost, Autoplay feature relies on Intersection Observer to detect when media is visible to your user.
The combination of &autoplay=1 and &mute=1 is ambiguous for audio. You can omit the script, as with any other API call. Click on the video content block and drag it to the section of the email where you want the video to appear. Adding video to your email messages is a simple when using the All-New Campaign Monitor drag-and-drop builder.
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HTML code in API response will point to Iframely iFrame and will also include the embed.js script. How to use video in your Campaign Monitor emails. I have tried searching the codes necessary for this, but nothing seems to work. I want to make this video autoplay (as soon as the blog is opened), on loop, and not muted. To mute the players on start for supported publishers on desktop (plus see Chrome browser below). Hi, so I have been using the theme Brooklyn, and I added a video through the custom HTML option.