disabling play/pause in embedded video using JW player

Question

I am using JW (v 5.8) player to embed a video. And I want to do it so that autostart is enabled, allowing the video to start playing as soon as the page loads, the controlba

Answer 1

You can use the CSS property pointer-events on the #mediaplayer to prevent the click event to go trough to the video:

#mediaplayer {
    pointer-events: none;
}

You could also abuse the onPause event as a fallback for older browsers , by saying; play the video if the pause event is executed:

jwplayer('mediaplayer').setup({
    flashplayer: 'player.swf',
    file: 'video.mp4',
    controlbar: 'none',
    width: '1000',
    height: '1000',
    autostart: 'true',
    events: {
        onPause: function() {
            this.play(true);
        }
    }
});