Hello all,
I am currently developing a video streaming site and am currently working on the video player. The site will be serving video content using HLS given that this will be quite sizable and long video content.
Given that the main functionality of the site is to watch streaming video, when a user clicks on a video to watch, when the video player page opens, the desire is to have the video start playing automatically with sound.
Safari autoplay policy basically rejects attempts to autoplay video content with audio unless the audio starts muted, otherwise, the user needs to interact with the player in order to start the video playing with audio unmuted.
Given that the main purpose of the site is to watch these videos, it would be hugely detrimental to require the user to interact with the player to either start playing the video, or to unmute it.
Many sites such as YouTube, Twitch, and others obviously have autoplay functionality that works as I would expect for a video-centric site in Safari. Given their size, I imagine they have some agreement with Safari team to have their site pre-authorized to allow autoplay with audio. How do I go about doing this?
Hoping someone might be able to share some information that would be useful to ensure I can have things configured correctly such that my Safari users won't have to suffer having to manually start playing, or turn on their audio in order to enjoy the videos the same way Chrome and Firefox users will automatically.
Thanks!