Autoplay Play video when click on poster in iphone

[kmahadev]

Hi,

I am loading the video poster first, then click on that poster video is loaded and calling the play() function to play the video. This works fine in all the desktop browsers and mobile except iphone and ipad.

In iphone the poster get loaded then click on the poster video gets loaded and again I see the video poster with play button (now this is the default player of iphone), so I again need to click the play button to play the video.

Expectation : video should load when click on poster and autoplay in iphone, without clicking twice.

Regards,
Karthik

[gkatsev]

Unfortunately, iphones are very tricky and limited.
You cannot autoplay videos on iOS because of Apple's limitations. Also, playing a video in the first place requires direct user interaction. Unfortunately, waiting for the video to load to call play on it after the poster is clicked is too long a time for iOS to allow that.
Unfortunately, there's nothing that videojs can do to fix or mitigate this issue.