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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2016
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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gifv image is not playing in <video> element

Project Member Reported by yini...@chromium.org, Mar 1 2016

Issue description

Version: 50.0.2657.0
OS: Android

When embed gifv file in <video> element, the video is not auto played even though <video autoplay loop muted> is set. This only repro on Android device. With spitzer enabled, the behavior is already better than with spitzer disabled which video is not load at all. Need fix this bug to make gifv auto play.
dale, can you assign appropriately?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. navigate to http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/


What is the expected output? 
gifv is playing

What do you see instead?
gifv is load but not play. 

 
Cc: liber...@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Autoplay isn't allowed on Android right now. liberato@ can give you the details. 
figuring out how to make autoplay work in more cases has been an ongoing debate.  lots of folks want to remove some of the restrictions, and we're trying to find the right balance.

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