Wanted: Service auto play video on page load

[fish]

Can anyone suggest how I can enable a video to start automatically on page load? It's on a word press site....

I can't find a plugin that does this (have got one to play the vid)

Suspect jquery script may be the ansa??

Any help much appreciated

Fish

 

[EnglishTeacher]

Where Is The Video Hosted/Stored?

Where is the video hosted/stored?

Can anyone suggest how I can enable a video to start automatically on page load? It's on a word press site....

I can't find a plugin that does this (have got one to play the vid)

Suspect jquery script may be the ansa??

Any help much appreciated

Fish

 

[fish]

Where is the video hosted/stored?

At the moment it's on the site/server, I could potentially change to youtube hosted and this may be beneficial in terms of bandwidth usage (is then offsite) however I don't have experience of using their api.

 

[Aegean]

You could try something like flowplayer if you are hosting the media file yourself.

 

[EnglishTeacher]

Re: YouTube

I embed using Youtube.com and autoplay on a non-commercial site - they have maximum 15 minutes and found it relatively easy to upload and play - so long as you are happy with their logo on the player and being able to click through etc., that is relatively simple. Personally I use Joomla and did not get to grips with WordPress so much - most likely someone on the site may know some plugin for WordPress that would work - not personally completely sure about simple code to use.

At the moment it's on the site/server, I could potentially change to youtube hosted and this may be beneficial in terms of bandwidth usage (is then offsite) however I don't have experience of using their api.

 

[fish]

thanks for suggestions so far. What I didn't originally mention is that the vid should open in a pop-up window / lightbox thingy .....

anyone want to quote to do it?

 

[golddiggerguy]

I will be all in the coding and am sure it will be an option.

It all depends on what you are using to play the video, what video player etc

• Flowplayer
• JW Player

etc

Forums like this may help

http://flowplayer.org/forum/2/11137

 

[golddiggerguy]

Look at Press75.com demo sites too.

 

[bensd]

Will the video have sound?

That's my top pet hate about websites when sound is played immediately.

 

[Ashton]

Its a subpage so its not as soon as you load up the website, its also very easy to cancel since its in a modal box.

I have sorted this for Howie using jquery to initiate the modal box on load.

 

[fish]

Will the video have sound?

That's my top pet hate about websites when sound is played immediately.

I know where you're coming from, I usually jump a mile when sound plays automatically

Thanks to all contributed, is sorted now.