Autoplay is broken

[1778707]

My settings are set to open videos paused (i.e., Autoplay = off) and it's been working fine until December I think... Now, you can't start a video by clicking Play icon or hitting a spacebar on your keyboard.

[1778707]

The bug is still there and seem like nobody wants to fix it...

[ImprovedTube]

@1778707 firefox? @victor-savinov

[ghost]

@1778707 didn't find this bug in Chromium. Which browser? ImprovedTube -> Settings -> Backup & reset -> Export settings

[CorazaCRZ]

I have the same problem. Chrome está actualizado Versión 100.0.4867.0 (Build oficial) canary (64 bits)

{ "channel_default_tab": "/videos", "channel_trailer_autoplay": false, "forced_theater_mode": true, "ga": 1643804793441, "how_long_ago_the_video_was_uploaded": true, "language": "es", "player_ads": "block_all", "player_autoplay": false, "player_hd_thumbnail": true, "player_hide_annotations": true, "player_hide_cards": true, "player_quality": "hd1080", "player_show_cards_on_mouse_hover": true, "red_dislike_button": false, "thumbnails_quality": "maxresdefault", "up_next_autoplay": false }

[ImprovedTube]

Seems we got 5 reports about this now 2x Firefox 3x Chrome 1x windows11

[xSnufflesx]

I also noticed this recently but it seems to only be happening on Opera GX that i recently switched to but works fine in Chrome. Issue: I Open a youtube video and it immediately starts playing on Opera GX with Autoplay turned off. On Chrome I open a youtube video and it starts off paused.

This is a very annoying feature of youtube especially when you have the habit of opening SEVERAL tabs at once and they just all start blasting in your ears. Plz fix

EDIT: Of course immediately after typing this i figured out the problem even tho i felt like id already troubleshooted it quite a bit lol The Solution for me was that it was happening while watching Playlists because the Setting in Playlist > Autoplay was turned on. Player > Autoplay seems to affect normal videos and Playlist > Autoplay affects videos watched in a playlist 🤦‍♀️

[ImprovedTube]

thanks @jacobh12349

@victor-savinov

[jacobh12349]

Your welcome

[5h3i1ah]

Is it not referring to this setting, the one that automatically goes to the next video after the current one ends? Because I've noticed that it keeps turning on even though I have the setting off, and I was expecting that to be the bug being reported here. Using Firefox, with Enhancer for YouTube also installed.

[ImprovedTube]

Welcome @5h3i1ah ! No, Player: Autoplay literally only is meant to describe if the player starts playing after you first load a video page, or remains quiet until you click play. YouTube's "Autoplay" used to only be called 'Up next' for the most of the years. Thus our feature for this also was called 'Up next' Since Youtube renamed it, we renamed it too as 'Autoplay Up Next'. - This is what you wanted to try.

• You could've noticed through searching autoplay in our extension to discover there are several features including this word. (pretty unlikely i guess?) So that brings us to the fact, that naturally, the more wishes and details we fulfill, the more confusing it can get and at some point more hard work for new features could have adverse effects actually decreasing the amount of users. So we all should think about making our structures near-perfect 🤔💭💭 #748

[5h3i1ah]

Ah, thank you for the clarification!

[bobofdarkness]

Hi, I noticed this issue on the Channel Home page as well. It seems that the the channel trailer "player" element uses id="c4-player" and the miniplayer uses the id="movie_player", but the miniplayer is created after the "yt-navigate-finish" event is triggered so initPlayer() is never getting called. Since video_url is only set in initPlayer and with the logic for if we are a Channel page with channel_trailer_autoplay=false it always gets to the pauseVideo() in the autoplay() function when you try to play the video.

I have: "channel_trailer_autoplay":false, "player_autoplay":true, you should be able to reproduce it on any Channel Home page with a trailer or any Channel Videos page. Note if you go from one Channel tab to another, i.e. go directly to the /videos url then click on the Home tab, you will not encounter the error.

I think if you update the ytElementsHandler function line 302: } else if (id === 'movie_player' && !this.elements.player) { to: } else if ((id === 'movie_player' || id === 'c4-player') && !this.elements.player) { I don't know if that is how you want to fix it but that would fix the issue on the Channel Home page.

The same issue happens with the miniplayer on the Channel Videos page, if you use "Add to Queue" and try to play it in the miniplayer. For this I tried adding:

        if (ImprovedTube.elements.player.closest('ytd-miniplayer')) {
            ImprovedTube.initPlayer();
        }

to the end of that same if statement and that seemed to fix it. It also applied the player customizations to the miniplayer so that was a nice bonus.

[ImprovedTube]

Wow Bob! 🤗👋

[Jerrk]

I've noticed this issue when watching livestream VODs

autoplay is off so the video doesnt start playing, but when i click play the video immediately pauses.

if i hold down the spacebar the video instantly pauses so its going forwards frame by frame.

refreshing the page doesnt help

if i turn autoplay ON the video starts playing no issue, but if i then turn it back OFF and pause the video, i cannot play it again.

EDIT: Happens sometimes on Youtube Shorts as well.

[Jerrk]

now started happening randomly as well. shift+refreshing the page does fix it though.

[ghost]

Fixed in version 4.0-alpha.1. You can wait for the beta update in the Chrome Web Store or GitHub release.