Captivate audio does not automatically play in Chrome Browser

As the dismissed autoplay of video and audio is a chrome problem, how about a browser check on the first slide? Me and most of our customer don't like the idea of a button to start the captivate project, because of the many clicks the user had done before - dependening on the LMS.

So my idea is a check, somewhat like "if chrome, then proceed, else got to slide 2" No clue how to do this ... maybe someone could help me out?

Thanks!

I noted that the web gaming industry is also complaining about this autoplay blocker in the new Chrome update. Google Chrome's autoplay blocker has an unintended victim -- web games | GamesBeat

The decision of Chorme to ban all AutoPlay has caused a lot of noise, on this forums. Personally I always took out AutoPlay whenever I embedded a CP published course in my blog, even when only SWF was available, because I really dislike websites where audio/video starts playing automatically. But I totally understand that the situation for eLearning courses is different and causing problems, because the Chrome ban doesn't worry about the difference between a ormal website and eLearning running in a browser.

Since I publish only to HTML since a year, and made the publsihed tutorials available for all devices (using mostly rescalable HTML) where AutoPlay already was turned off for a lot of mobile devices, I did use a workflow to get rid of that awful White screen and the standard black Play button. Users asked about that workflow and several weeks ago I posted a step-by-step explanation:

1. To  replace the used black button icon by an empty graphic
2. To design a poster image with a replacement Play icon
3. To take out the automatic dimming of the poster image (thanks to a CP-friend, expert in CSS).

You can have a look at:

Poster Image - AutoPlay - Captivate blog

I would love to see the workflow made easier by the Adobe team, have logged several feature requests for this and previous versions. I will start a discussion about that to get help for other users for those requests.

I just checked a course that I did a few years ago for the Toronto International Airport and sure enough, the first slide has no audio. Once you progress to the next slide it seems to be okay. If could be that these older courses are set up to autoplay and Chrome doesn't like that. The reason media doesn't autoplay without some kind of click from the user is all the annoying audio and video ads on the internet. Unfortunately, this means you may have to republish these courses with the play button turned on. Check out my video about how to make this a little nicer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7_bUNGvMh0