Video Autoplay Behavior in WebView

Vega Open Beta Bug Reports
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Hi @OTTera,

Thank you for your patience while we investigated this issue.

Solution: By default, WebView apps require user action to enable autoplay. To enable unmuted video autoplay in your WebView application, you need to modify the mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction API setting.

Implementation: Please set mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction to false in your WebView configuration. You can find the complete API documentation here:

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega-api/0.22/webview-component-reference.html#mediaplaybackrequiresuseraction

This will allow your video content to autoplay without muting, which is the expected behavior for TV applications including 24/7 linear channels.

Can you try implementing this solution and let me know if it resolves the autoplay issue you’re experiencing with your HLS streams?

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any questions!

Warm regards,
Aishwarya