How To Auto Start YouTube Video Playback

Making a video start playing automatically requires one additional step, which requires modifying the code provided by YouTube for posting.

This step will also work if you want to make a YouTube video automatically start playing on any other type of Web page, although the exact steps for adding video to a particular blogging engine vary.

The first part of adding a YouTube video to your website is to copy the embed code from the YouTube site.

After copying the code and logging into your website, go to your blog page on MySpace and click the link to post a new blog

If you’re using the Mac OS X browser Safari, you won’t see this option, so you can skip this step.

Paste the YouTube Embed code in the body section of your blog post using either Ctrl+V or by right-clicking and choosing Paste from the menu,  the important area is highlighted text below:

Next you need to modify the Video Source URL in the code by adding &autoplay=1 to the end of the URL as shown below:

After you add the autoplay parameter, simply preview and post your latest entry to your website.