Autoplay Your Embedded Videos
Something a few of you folks have been asking for is finally here! If you have your Motionbox videos embedded on your own website or blog, you'll now be able to have them play automatically when your webpage loads.
You just need to add the following code snippet to two places in your Motionbox embed code: %2CautoPlay=true
So, here's a sample embed code, and the part you need to add to your own embed code is in bold and underlined:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="416" height="234" id="mbox_player_4c9dd0ba1513e5c3"><param name="movie" value="http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type%253Dsd%252Caffiliate_name%253Dmotionbox%252Cvideo_uid%253D4c9dd0ba1513e5c3%2CautoPlay=true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullscreen" value="true" />
<embed src="http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type%253Dsd%252Caffiliate_name%253Dmotionbox%252Cvideo_uid%253D4c9dd0ba1513e5c3%2CautoPlay=true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" width="416" height="234" allowFullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" name="mbox_player_4c9dd0ba1513e5c3"></embed></object>
Easy enough, right? Let us know if you have any trouble.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Wow, that worked great. thanks guys.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Autoplay isn't working for me in Firefox 3.0.6 for Mac or PC & Chrome 1.0.154.43. Is this an isolated issue or is it occurring for others? I'm not as concerned about Chrome right now as I am Firefox since there isn't a large number of Chrome users yet.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
It's not working for me either. Is there a fix for this? I'm using internet explore.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Hi guys,
Can you check and make sure there is no space before the word "autoPlay"? There should be no spaces until AFTER the ,autoPlay=true. If that's not the issue you're having, let us know. You can email us an example of your embed code to support@motionbox.com and we can take a look!
I hope that helps though!
Kristy K.
Motionbox Support Team
April 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
You guys have to make sure you add the ",autoplay=true" to BOTH address locations. The src value under the embed, and the value value under param.
Hope that helps.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Autoplay isn't working for me in Firefox 3.0.6 for Mac or PC & Chrome 1.0.154.43. Is this an isolated issue or is it occurring for others? I'm not as concerned about Chrome right now as I am Firefox since there isn't a large number of Chrome users yet.