YT autoplay on mobile devices

Question

So I am working on making a website for myself and it contains a looping youtube video in the background. But when I try to load the page on a mobile device the youtube video just keeps buffering and ends up telling me to restart. I know that autoplay isnt supposed to work on mobile devices, but the video clearly tries to start.

Is there a way to fix this?

The page is AMolle.com if you have the time to check it out=)

You could create an array *(hold the video id's `v=xxxxx`)*, use the youtube players event listener to wait for the first video to end so it will play the next one and loop through the videos that way? — NewToJS, Sep 29 '16 at 11:16
@NewToJS What I was trying to ask for was a way to auto-start the video, because I have looping covered — Andreas Moldskred, Sep 29 '16 at 11:18
Ah I see. I read part of the question wrong. My apologies *just woke up* — NewToJS, Sep 29 '16 at 11:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

Well, I'm not sure if there is a legal way on how to make auto play videos possible on the mobile device. The reason for the autoplay, playVideo() and loadVideoById() to do not work on mobile device is to prevent unsolicited downloads over cellular networks at the user’s expense and embedded media cannot be played automatically.

The other people use the UIWebView as an alternative for the IOS device to make the autoplay work. Check these threads for more information.

YT autoplay on mobile devices

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