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Have to click twice in Chrome to play video streams (if smaller than 400x300px)

In Chrome, if Flash content is smaller than 400px x 300px, then it won't autoplay by default. Instead the user must click a PLAY icon on the Flash content to start it.

When I use JWPlayer to play a stream (with autostart:true), it starts automatically if larger than 400px x 300px.
TWICE :

a) click Chrome's own PLAY icon to tell Chrome to start playing the Flash content
b) click another PLAY icon (within the JWPlayer itself) to start playing the video

I would only expect the user to have to do a), not b) as well.

Is this a JWPlayer bug, or does anyone know a way around this issue?

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*** Some text from my post above went missing - below is the full post ***

In Chrome, if Flash content is smaller than 400px x 300px, then it won't autoplay by default. Instead the user must click a PLAY icon on the Flash content to start it.

When I use JWPlayer to play a stream (with autostart:true), it starts automatically if larger than 400px x 300px.

If smaller than 400px x 300px, I would expect the user to have to click PLAY to start the Flash content (fair enough), but in fact, the user must click TWICE :

a) click Chrome's own PLAY icon to tell Chrome to start playing the Flash content
b) click another PLAY icon (within the JWPlayer itself) to start playing the video

I would only expect the user to have to do a), not b) as well.

Is this a JWPlayer bug, or does anyone know a way around this issue?

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi there,

Chrome automatically blocks Flash content from automatically playing if it is less than 400px x 300px. More recent versions of our player should handle this behavior more gracefully, however.

What version of JW Player are you using?

Thank you.

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