Struggling with Video Formats?

Converting videos to different formats can be difficult and time-consuming.

An easier solution is to let YouTube play the videos in your web page.

YouTube Video Id

YouTube will display an id (like tgbNymZ7vqY), when you save (or play) a video.

You can use this id, and refer to your video in the HTML code.

To play your video on a web page, do the following:

- Upload the video to YouTube

- Take a note of the video id

- Define an <iframe> element in your web page

- Let the src attribute point to the video URL

- Use the width and height attributes to specify the dimension of the player

- Add any other parameters to the URL (see below)

EXAMPLE:

You can let your video start playing automatically when a user visits the page, by adding autoplay=1 to the YouTube URL.

Chrome added stricter autoplay policies in 2018. Chromium browsers do not allow autoplay in all cases. However, muted autoplay is always allowed.

Add mute=1 after autoplay=1 to let your video start playing automatically (but muted).

EXAMPLE:

A comma separated list of videos to play (in addition to the original URL).

Add loop=1 to let your video loop forever.

Value 0 (default): The video will play only once.

Value 1: The video will loop (forever).

EXAMPLE:

Add controls=0 to display controls in the video player.

Value 0: Player controls does not display.

Value 1 (default): Player controls display.

EXAMPLE: