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GS overwrites video 'play' function? Is there a workaround

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This thread was started before GSAP 3 was released. Some information, especially the syntax, may be out of date for GSAP 3. Please see the GSAP 3 migration guide and release notes for more information about how to update the code to GSAP 3's syntax. 

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Hi There, 

 

We're trying to play video automatically upon clicking a button on a page (ie without pressing play on the video skin) but it seems GSAP, which is used extensively on the site, overwrites the html5 'play' function so it doesn't work.

Does anyone know of a work-around that will allow triggering of video? I need to create a lightbox-like effect that will autoplay a video when a user clicks the relevant button on the page.

 

Cheers

Roger

 

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We think it's gsap because the function used to play the video is .play(), and so is the function to play the timeline in gsap. The error in the js console is saying cannot call play() on a non-object, which implies that it's trying to play a timeline, not a video.

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I don't think so - a TimelineLite or TimelineMax is an object, so you wouldn't get an error about it being a non-object. Could you please create a simple codepen or jsfiddle that demonstrates the issue so that we can see what's going on? I'm 99.9% sure this has nothing to do with GSAP, but it's tough to troubleshoot blind. I honestly can't imagine how GSAP could possibly hijack the play() call of anything else. Does that error go away if you remove GSAP from the page? (even if it does, that doesn't mean it was GSAP, by the way, but if the error persists we at least know that it has nothing to do with GSAP). 

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