Unable to play videos from Videoplayer on Safari. Autoplay settings might be the issue

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I have a videoplayer which works on every browser except Safari. I checked around and found out that Safari has a settings which stops autoplay from videos with audio. A user interaction is required but whatever i do from Unity doesn’t work on Safari. Do you have any suggestion to solve this issue? If i mute the video the player works, but i’m not in the situation where i can extract the audio and sync it

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by user 191193824372981760

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Hey, are you using the VideoPlayer component?
Audio is generally not allowed to be played before any user interaction - the AudioSources do respect that and I was thinking Video too but perhaps that’s a bug or regression where it’s not.

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Which version of Needle Engine are you using?

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Hi @probobbo do you have some more information about your usecase? What format is the video in?

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oh i forgot to update this, i solved the issue by adding a muted videoplayer with “play on awake” enabled in the scene

by user 191193824372981760

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so when i tap on the UI, safari starts playing videos

by user 191193824372981760

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the muted player is hidden to the user of course

by user 191193824372981760

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Bit strange that this fixes it. Would you be able to still make a bug report from a scene that doesn’t work for you? I wasn’t able to reproduce it here, our intnernal logic should make things “just work”