From b51c665989ef38b4480e9dd9bf816ebee229284f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fons van der Plas <fons@plutojl.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:46:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] animation: autoplay <video> in HTML (#5006)

---
 PlotsBase/src/animation.jl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PlotsBase/src/animation.jl b/PlotsBase/src/animation.jl
index e3b5cd911..cdcec84d8 100644
--- a/PlotsBase/src/animation.jl
+++ b/PlotsBase/src/animation.jl
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/html", agif::AnimatedGif)
         "<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,$(base64encode(read(agif.filename)))\" />"
     elseif ext in ("mov", "mp4", "webm")
         mimetype = ext == "mov" ? "video/quicktime" : "video/$ext"
-        "<video controls><source src=\"data:$mimetype;base64,$(base64encode(read(agif.filename)))\" type = \"$mimetype\"></video>"
+        "<video autoplay controls><source src=\"data:$mimetype;base64,$(base64encode(read(agif.filename)))\" type = \"$mimetype\"></video>"
     else
         error("Cannot show animation with extension $ext: $agif")
     end