There is a reason why some autostart and some don't... If the content is on a News Story then it waits for you to press play as the primary content is the News Story and you can choose to start the video or not...e.g: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7494891.stm Some start automatically because they are on Media Asset Pages - i.e. the purpose of the page is to host the video and so if you get there then you obviously just want to play the media, so it just starts, eg: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7496377.stm There are some exceptions such as when content within the media has a guidance warning, meaning it won't be suitable for all users. These videos will never auto start as you may not want to see what is in then. Cheers, jod -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mr I Forrester Sent: Fri 7/4/2008 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Quick idea for BBC News video
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not so sure, its actually a good idea I think. A simple querystring element which starts the video as soon as possible. I'll put it in our ideas section, including your reason why not :) Peter Bowyer wrote: > You pretty much talked yourself out of that one, then :-) > > Peter > > 2008/7/4 Matt Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, just browsing the news and I wanted to send a link to a friend, and was >> wondering if it would be good to have a switch we could append to the URL, >> to make the video play automatically. Unsure if this would in some ways be >> detrimental - i.e. I could then force someone to unwittingly start a video, >> and at work with the sound up that could cause problems for some people, >> also maybe it's a feature that noone would use... but yeh, just a thought. >> As it's said, the signal is the noise! >> >> Ta, Matt >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org <http://enigmail.mozdev.org/> iD8DBQFIbgb4QiJ2fWCDT3cRArnVAJ0Wgi5kbHA5BYTg98RO4pBx63EkwACdF/iK yWnszMfbrFtqlvTUJ3rZr+I= =WdIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
