[FOSS4G2016] Autoplaying vidoes on homepage

Volker Mische volker.mische at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 23:49:24 PDT 2016


Hi all,

it's still autoplaying. Can anyone tackle this?

Cheers,
  Volker

On 09/14/2016 10:27 AM, Volker Mische wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I find it quite annoying that we outplay videos on the FOSS4G homepage.
> The problem is that they are embedded a iframes, it would be better to
> use the video tag. Here's an example:
> 
>     <video controls>
>       <source
> src="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1562-introduction_till-hd.webm"
> type="video/webm">
>         <source
> src="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1562-introduction_till-hd.mp4"
> type="video/mp4">
>           I'm sorry; your browser doesn't support HTML5 video in WebM
> with VP8 or MP4 with H.264.
>     </video>
> 
> You can try it out at [1].
> 
> I've tried it on Linux on a recent Firefox and on Windows with Internet
> Explorer 11. On both systems the video worked and did not autoplay.
> 
> Can anyone change that?
> 
> [1]: http://vmx.cx/tmp/video.html
> 
> Cheers,
>   Volker
> 


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