audio / video autoplay attribute and play function

[cakeant]

some mobile browser like safari doesn't support autoplay attribute nor play function.
Audio/ video will be played only by user click / touch event.
It will be great to have a full support list for all browser.

"In Safari on iOS (for all devices, including iPad), where the user may be on a cellular network and be charged per data unit, preload and autoplay are disabled. No data is loaded until the user initiates it."

Please reference to Apple developer page for Safari:
Safari HTML5 Audio and Video Guide
https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html

[knod]

Also, the MDN says that some versions of Chrome don't use autoplay, but instead use autostart.

[Fyrd]

#3140 has more data on this

[Schweinepriester]

+1

[cakeant]

Hi, this seems to have been solved in #3140.

I think this issue can be closed now, so much appreciated.

[knod]

Has the autoplay vs. autostart issue been addressed? Is it no longer true?

[GPHemsley]

In addition to being subsumed into the caniuse data on the audio and video elements:
https://caniuse.com/audio
https://caniuse.com/video

Looks like this is now covered by MDN data:
https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_audio_autoplay
https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_video_autoplay
https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_htmlmediaelement_autoplay

(via mdn/browser-compat-data#388)