Backlight Theater - auto play video

Backlight 4, 5 & 6 Support
#1

Is it possible to have a youtube embedded video play as soon as the page is loaded/menu clicked? I haven’t looked at this for a while and can’t find anything in the Pangolin Theater template settings.

Great if someone could let me know how please!

#2

there is an Auto Play setting in the album template

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#3

Thanks as always Rod!

#4

Well this got quite interesting :smile: I managed to get the auto play working with YouTube, but now there’s some “interference” from YouTube which gives a message “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” and of course the video won’t play. Clearly not a Backlight error.

So I switched over to a Vimeo embed instead, which works but won’t auto play. Is there anything I can do to get the auto play working? If I put the video ID into the Lightroom album the embedded video flashes up the first frame of the video and then presents a blank white screen until the play button is pressed (same result with Safari and Chrome). Adding “?autoplay=1” to the Video ID at least shows the video thumbnail but it won’t autoplay.

#5

This message might only happen to you and not a regular visitor. Did you try with another browser where you’re not logged into your google youtube account? Or you can share a link here and we can check.

#6

Thanks Daniel, link here Photographer Shropshire - Commercial & Event Videography - A Decent Exposure

This is using a Vimeo embed code, in the Lightroom album the Video ID is 1066494607?autoplay=1

The YouTube “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” seems to be happening to a variety of people when trying to view embedded videos so it appears to be something Google have implemented.

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