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

Ahhh yes, there used to be functionality in the player to do this (about ignoring the click) but it seems it keeps getting removed.

Here's the solution I've just implemented that works for me, I simply plug into the onPause javascript event and start the media playing again.