Video autoplay in Journal

MilaAlvarez

I have inserted two videos in the Main stage of a Journal story map (each one in different sections of the story, 1st page and 5th page). When I open the story map, the first video starts playing, but you can also hear the music of the second video in the 5th page. Both videos have music. And both videos are set up as autoplay, using this code:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nw96w49E2Ac?rel=0&autoplay=1;showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

Any advice on how to avoid hearing both videos when I fist start the story?

Thank you!

oevans_storymaps

Hi Mila -- We strongly advise against autoplaying videos with sound as that is not a best practice for web design and is something that is almost universally disliked. In fact, web browsers are starting to block autoplaying videos with sound. Just check out the titles of the results for a web search for "browser autoplay with sound."

When you do add video with sound to Map Journal (hopefully without autoplay 😉 ) and need to use URL parameters to hide related videos or set the start time you'll need to add the video as a web page. In this case should use the option to "unload when reader navigates away" so that the sound for a video doesn't keep playing when readers move to a different section.