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Helper IEmbedded Youtube Video in Dashboard - auto play
Hi All,
I have embedded a youtube video in a tile for a dashboard. This works fine but i was aiming for the video to autoplay.
Is there any way to do this without clicking it? I've even tried adding the addtional youtube code for auto play, but this makes no difference.
Thanks
Hi Eyelyn9,
Thanks for that, that worked, but I also went a step further and adapted your code and tried with youtube.
I got it working, so I can embed youtube videos the same way, the turning point was a difference in url structure:
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whatever?autoplay=1"></iframe>
Does not work, but the below:<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/whatever?autoplay=1"></iframe>
does work, the difference was watch vs embed in the url structure.
Hope this may help someone.
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- collinq
Super User
HI thyjones ,
At this time, there is no way to get it to autoplay. However, this sounds like a great idea to create (or find). If you create one, let us know and we can vote for it. Ideas (powerbi.com)
Hi thyjones ,
According to my test, at this stage we have not been able to successfully embed YouTube hosted videos.
But as a workaround,you could use create a video content from Vimeo via htmlViewer visual in Power BI Desktop.
The necessary code is ?autoplay=1 and allow="autoplay"
Here is the example code:
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/76979871?autoplay=1" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>Then publish the report to service ,pin the visual to dashboard, the video could auto play.
Refer to :
How to Create, Host and Embed Videos in Power BI — DiscoverEI
Autoplaying and looping embedded videos – Vimeo Help Center
Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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thyjonesHi Eyelyn9,
Thanks for that, that worked, but I also went a step further and adapted your code and tried with youtube.
I got it working, so I can embed youtube videos the same way, the turning point was a difference in url structure:
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whatever?autoplay=1"></iframe>
Does not work, but the below:<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/whatever?autoplay=1"></iframe>
does work, the difference was watch vs embed in the url structure.
Hope this may help someone.
Hi thyjones ,
I tested again with your code, but it seems not work...
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XXv13mkjV2Y?autoplay=1"></iframe>Could you tell me where I made a mistake?🤔
Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin- thyjones
Hi,
On my Dashboard, the following code works fine for me:
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XXv13mkjV2Y?autoplay=1">
</iframe>If it doesn't work, just do a refresh of the page as sometimes mine needed that to load the code.
Does that work?
Since April 2018, Google made some changes to the Autoplay Policy. You not only need to add the autoplay=1 as a query param, but also add allow='autoplay' as an iframe's attribute
So while embed youtube video, you will have to do something like this:
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID?autoplay=1" allow='autoplay'></iframe>
