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ArielAtFrost
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July 25, 2016
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Video Autoplays Despite Advanced Action

  • July 25, 2016
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I have several videos embedded in a module, and each is programmed to pause until the user clicks play.  But the video in the FIRST slide of the module autoplays, regardless of the advanced action tied to it. (Note: this only occurs when published as a swf. In HTML 5 it's fine, and in preview mode it's fine.) The video is moved down the timeline to avoid automatically playing. What is going on??

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Can you give more details over that 'advanced action' tied to that first slide.

    Anyway: personally I would never put a 'heavy' object on a first slide of a course. Did you try to insert a (short) Title or Intro slide before that first slide? If the advanced action is launched by the On Enter event of that slide, the reason could be that the loading is not totally finished and that causes the action not to perform as you want.

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    ArielAtFrost
    Participant
    September 29, 2016

    Thank you for replying! I apologize for not having seen this earlier. I ended up hosting the video in Vimeo and then adding the video as a web object instead of a video object. That seemed to fix the issue! So you were probably right about the loading interfering with playback.

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    July 26, 2016

    Can you give more details over that 'advanced action' tied to that first slide.

    Anyway: personally I would never put a 'heavy' object on a first slide of a course. Did you try to insert a (short) Title or Intro slide before that first slide? If the advanced action is launched by the On Enter event of that slide, the reason could be that the loading is not totally finished and that causes the action not to perform as you want.