YouTube Embed Code Options - Autoplay On or Off

September 26, 2008 | By Brian Wong In Web 2.0 Marketing |

Here are some problems I face when embedding YouTube videos on my website.

First, the user has to click on the “play” button for the video to play. People who are new to online video might not even know to how to do that.

autoplay youtube

Second, at the end of the video, the “related videos” pop up taking your visitor to other sites. In other words, off your site!

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So have you ever wanted your embedded YouTube video to automatically play (autoplay) when your page loads? How about turning off the “related video” feature at the end the video?

You’ve come to the right place. After much experimenting, here are all the YouTube embed code variations to get your video just the way you want it. Just replace the video URL with the video you want to embed:

Default YouTube Embed Code:
<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0&autoplay=1″></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0&rel=1&border=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent”width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

Code to Autoplay a YouTube Movie:
<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0&autoplay=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed>

Code to turn off RELATED MOVIES at the end of the movie
<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0&rel=0&border=0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent”></embed>

Code to Autoplay YouTube Movie AND turn OFF related movies at the end of the movie:
<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0&autoplay=1&rel=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed>

Want to see what it looks like? Click on the image below to see a live example of the codes in action.

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Click on this link to get the codes and view the live example.

Enjoy.

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    • 4 Comments so far

    1. Joe Shibata CorriganNo Gravatar on September 28th, 2008

      thanks mate. I was thinking about a solution yesterday!

      Law of attraction strikes again…

    2. Brian WongNo Gravatar on September 30th, 2008

      Glad to be of service. :)

    3. Paul LoudonNo Gravatar on December 3rd, 2008

      Hi There,

      my autoplay won’t work the added code: “&autoplay=1″ keeps being replaced by: “-50&autoplay=1″ when the page refreshes.

      The entire thing is below (yes I want the the music from Conan to play automatically on the page) Thanks for any help:

    4. Brian WongNo Gravatar on December 4th, 2008

      Hi Paul,

      As you can see, the codes are working fine here: http://brianwong.com/blog/other/youtube-embed-codes.htm

      Its very likely that you will need to edit the page in a better html editor that does not replace your code with different characters.

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