Comments on: YouTube Embed Code Options – Autoplay On or Off

By: nick

nick — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:17 +0000

doesn’t seem to work for me…any ideas?

By: ed

ed — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:24:11 +0000

thanks Brian! i had alot of problems with this this really helped me out alot

By: arief

arief — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:50:42 +0000

thanks Brian!
old post but it help me much taking care my videos.

By: libertytaken

libertytaken — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:33 +0000

Thanks Brian!!! This is very helpful. I applied it to my website called Liberty Taken – libertytaken.com. More helpful tips.

By: DeniE.

DeniE. — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:35:01 +0000

Hi Brian!
I was suffering with a video all day, until I found your site and quickly solved all my doubts. Thank you so much … I’m doing my first blog
http://thevirtualparadise.blogspot.com/
and you really helped me a lot. Saúdos!

By: trevon

trevon — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:52:18 +0000

hi can i ask?
bout the play button then if you click the button there is embed video auto play…
something like this
http://www.dropbox.com/
hope you help me..

By: Vincent Kernaghan

Vincent Kernaghan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:41:28 +0000

I spent hours trying different things until I found this page which helped me figure it out in 5 minutes. With the latest changes from YouTube, this is the code that works for me on both IE and Firefox. It gets inserted immediately after the URL, before the closing ”

?rel=0&frameborder=0&autoplay=1

Like Burhan points out earlier above, it now needs to start with the ? and use the & repeatedly. I did it with no spaces between the parameters.

The full code looks like this:

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:26:15 +0000

Very helpful! Thanks Brian!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:18:24 +0000

Just thought since this post talks about how to make the old embed code loop I figured I would put the iframe code to make it loop as well.

Example with auto starting and looping:

added &autoplay=1&loop=1 at the end of the youtube URL

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By: Rudy

Rudy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:25:15 +0000

Since youtube has updated there embed code to an iframe now I was searching online to see how to make a playlist I made for my site to auto play when the page loads. Youtube doesn’t offer to much in the way of embedding options now. I came across this site when I was trying to figure out how to get it to auto play but this post has the old embed codes so I thought I would share how to get your videos or playlist to auto play since even on the youtube help section which was updated feb 2, 2011 I believe is not up to date with the new iframe code.

Eample of current iframe code (playlist):

After playing around with the “play in HD” check box option I notice a small bit of extra coded added to the end of the URL which was ” &hd=1 ” So I figured if I changed the [ &hd=1 ] to [ &autoplay=1 ] at the end of the URL it would make the video start by its self once the web page loaded which it did work :)

Example of current iframe code with auto play:

I have a live example of this on my website in the side bar of the site. Just click on my name to the left if you want to see how the video auto plays now. Also you can change the size of the video right in the script if the size options don’t work for you on youtube as they didn’t for me. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem I had cause I never did find the answer after search for over an hour online for such a simple option. :)