Please provide the ability to autoplay, or even better, autoplay the first 5 seconds of a video on loop | Voters

Please provide the ability to autoplay, or even better, autoplay the first 5 seconds of a video on loop

Harry Berg

Many of us are trying to build "video sales letter" landing pages, where the fold contains a video. When this video is already playing, it massively increases the chance that the user will watch it, which is incredibly impactful on conversions.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Automatic Video Playback

Paolo Schianchi

Enable the ability for embedded videos to automatically start playing when their respective slides are active during a Gamma presentation, or at least implement functionality to respect and utilize autoplay parameters within embedded video URLs (e.g., YouTube's ?autoplay=1), allowing for automatic video playback in presentations.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

Thanks Paolo! Good suggestion

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Movies fullscreen

Marco van Thiel

Hi, I would like to add video's that can play fullscreen in the presentation.
I would prefer to upload video's but I can imagine that the storage capacity then is expanding to much. Therefore I will upload video's to Youtube, an embedded youtube video I would like to be able to play immediately when the slide is opened, and preferably play fullscreen or have an option to make it play fullscreen.
your competitor Powerpoint is much less visually interesting, but does provide these functionalities

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Autoplay Video

Yul Hardick

I want to autoplay video, have tried every integration and possible block (video, webpage embed, etc) and always needs to show a play option etc, most need to popup or open in new tab. I just want to be able to play and loop videos, perhaps play on load when scrolling down..

Freshwater Futures

For presentations autoplay of video would be really useful

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Autoplay Video feature

Stephen Moore

Please add a feature where we can upload a video directly to the site with an autoplay option as soon as you load the website. This would give it such an expert over the top professional feel.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

Hi Harry Berg, it looks like Wistia embeds may support this. I just came across this gamma site poppy.ai using a video with a preview

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

Thanks Harry Berg. I don't know that we'll be able to prioritize this right now, but I cut a ticket to look into it.

It looks like youtube's documentation says you can autoplay via a URL parameter (

&autoplay=1

) but I tested it in our product and it didn't work.

Harry Berg

Nik Payne (Gamma design) to enable autoplay, you must also mute

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

Hey Harry Berg thanks so much for the suggestion (and adding detail). Sounds like an interesting use case.
Is it important to you that gamma hosts the video, or is the autoplay behavior that’s the missing ingredient?
Also, where are your videos hosted?

Harry Berg

Nik Payne (Gamma design) the autoplay is the missing feature. I host my videos on Vimeo or youTube which is perfectly fine, but it would also be fine if Gamma hosted, as I imagine that would make developing this feature easier. I can imagine a toggle for "Autoplay" and an additional checkbox for "Loop first 5 seconds".