How to pause an Brightcove video with autostart parameter immediately after page load?

Question

We are trying to display a video where upon template load, the viewer can initiate different cue points in the video by clicking on different thumbnails. The problem is that this doesn't work unless the video is already playing, and we don't want it to play automatically on page load. Is there a way to have the video start to play on template load and immediately pause? We have tried the pause() method within onTemplateLoaded and onTemplateReady functions with no luck.

Answer 1

I was banging my head against the wall on this question too. I used a lot of example code from http://docs.brightcove.com/en/video-cloud/smart-player-api/solutions/chaptered-video.html

You should be able to videoPlayer.play() the video somewhere in onTemplateReady and call videoPlayer.pause(true) on onMediaBegin following along with the example code.

This worked for me on the desktop but not for mobile.