Video doesn't autoplay on iOS devices

[big5am]

I fixed this by adding the playsinline attribute to the video.html file:

{{ if eq (.Get "playsinline") "true" }}playsinline {{ end }}

[martignoni]

I'd like to reproduce the wrong behaviour. Please post your repo and a link.

[big5am]

Hey @martignoni

Sorry, It's a private repo, unfortunately.

Forked change here: https://github.com/big5am/hugo-video

Here's the shortcode I'm using {{< video autoplay="true" loop="true" src="videoname" muted="true" controls="false" playsinline="true" width="300px"}}

[martignoni]

Sorry, It's a private repo, unfortunately.

I'm afraid it's not possible to fix something I (or others) cannot reproduce as a bug: video play correctly on iOS (see e.g. https://moodlebox.net/en/help/root-certificate-install-macos/, source code: https://github.com/moodlebox/moodlebox.net/tree/master/content/en/help/install-certificate-macos).

Please try to publish a minimal working (buggy) example, so that we can confirm there's indeed something to fix.

[big5am]

Video plays on iOS yes, but autoplay doesn't work. i.e. where video loads and plays automatically when the website loads.

I'll do my best to whip up an example asap.

It's a known requirement for autoplaying vids on iOS (sucks i know)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/delivering_video_content_for_safari

[martignoni]

Thanks for the ref. I'll fix this soon.

[martignoni]

I'll go for adding playsinline by default, as it has no real drawbacks.