When using the a video object in a page with AWEcontent it works wonderfully except on mobile. Both on mobile safari and chrome, when you touch the video it loads the youtube video but does not begin playing. Is there a way to make sure it will play with just the first touch/click like on the desktop? Does this have to do with autoplay not being recognized on mobile?
Fri, 11/06/2015 - 18:55
After some research it does appear that the autoplay is the issue on mobile. I just used an html object and put a html5 video tag in. That would be a nice extra feature to the video object (vimeo/youtube embeds or upload and html5 player).
Please take a look at https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference?hl=en#Mobile_considerations
Note: "Warning: To prevent unsolicited downloads over cellular networks at the user’s expense, embedded media cannot be played automatically in Safari on iOS — the user always initiates playback."
So we will have not autoplay on mobile. If you would like to use, there is only way as you said above.