Does HMTL5 video autoplay work on Samsung Smart TV

Question

I'm trying to get an HTML5 video element to autoplay on a Samsung Smart TV (in the regular browser, not specifically as a TV app, if that makes any difference). Perhaps the autoplay element just doesn't work - I have tried all of the following.

autoplay="true"
autoplay="autoplay"
autoplay=autoplay

The video element will play fine manually (once you have managed to point the cursor on the incredibly tiny play control!)

Has anyone else got this to work?

Answer 1

This should work:

<video id="video" src="movie.mp4" autoplay="autoplay" width="320" height="240">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video> 

At least the documentation says that: http://www.samsungdforum.com/upload_files/files/guide/data/html/html_2/reference/HTML%20Specification.html#HTML5%20and%20Samsung%20Smart%20TV%20SDK

If the autoplay attribute won't work, still you can start it using JavaScript. Just try to call the play() method:

var myVideo = document.getElementById("video");
myVideo.load();
myVideo.play();