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Starred by 4 users
Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 824653
Owner:
beccahughes@chromium.org
Closed: Apr 2018
Cc:
█ johnpallett@chromium.org
mlamouri@chromium.org
mac-bugs-priority@chromium.org
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OS: Mac
Pri: 1
Type: Bug



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youtube sometimes doesn't autoplay

Project Member Reported by ojan@chromium.org, Apr 21 2018 
Attaching a screen shot of chrome:media-engagement.

Youtube wouldn't autoplay a video repeatedly. I thought maybe I was on a buggy Chrome version, so I updated Chrome to latest Canary and it still wouldn't autoplay. Then I tried playing other videos and they did autoplay. I went back to the tab that wasn't autoplaying, reloaded, and it started autoplaying. 

So, I'm not really sure how to reproduce this, but it does seem like there's a bug somewhere.


Google Chrome	68.0.3402.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
Revision	b1fb8dd7284574e7e6b8b1e704099326a5e01234-refs/heads/master@{#552545}
Screenshot 2018-04-21 11.23.33.png
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Comment 1 by mlamouri@chromium.org, Apr 22 2018

Cc: beccahughes@chromium.org
Components: Internals>Media>Engagement
Your MEI seems fine, you have a score of 0.4 because you have less than 20 sessions so we use 8/20.

When you said you played "other videos", were they on YouTube too?

Also, when you went to that video that did not play, did you follow a link to YT or was it when going from YT landing page?

Comment 2 by ojan@chromium.org, Apr 22 2018 

Yeah, by "other videos" I meant YouTube videos.

For the one that didn't play, I followed a link to it.

It just happened to me again in the same Chrome instance (i.e. haven't restarted since filing this bug). Here's what I did:

1. cmd+click a youtube link to open it in the background. 
2. Some time later, focused the YouTube tab. It didn't autoplay.
3. Reload the page. It autoplayed.
4. Close the tab.
5. cmd+click to open the YouTube link (I thought maybe the issue was with opening videos in background tabs)
6. Focus the YouTube tab. It autoplayed.

So, I still don't have reliable repro steps unfortunately. Maybe this is a YouTube bug?

Comment 3 by ojan@chromium.org, Apr 22 2018 

I just had it happen again with clicking on a link from gmail (no cmd+click this time). It happened twice, then the third time, the video autoplayed.

Comment 4 by susan.boorgula@chromium.org, Apr 22 2018

Labels: Needs-Triage-M68

Comment 5 by mlamouri@chromium.org, Apr 28 2018

Cc: -beccahughes@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-1
Owner: beccahughes@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Assigning to beccahughes@ as we got another report for the same issue. We need to understand what's happening ASAP and whether it could be affecting M66.

Comment 6 by ojan@chromium.org, Apr 28 2018 

Happy to provide other information if there's anything I can gather to help with debugging next time I encounter it.

Comment 7 by beccahughes@chromium.org, Apr 30 2018

Mergedinto: 824653
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)
This looks like 824653.

Comment 8 by beccahughes@chromium.org, May 2 2018 

@ojan - please can you test this again on the latest canary?

Comment 9 by ojan@chromium.org, May 5 2018 

It didn't happen reliably for me. I haven't seen it since. Will reopen if I see it again.
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