Overview
In Vidyard, you can set the a player to automatically play after a page loads (also known as autoplay).
If you have the same player embedded in more than one location, you can also use a query string to enable autoplay on a "per embed basis" (i.e. autoplay on a specify embed location rather than everywhere the player exists).
Solution
Add data-autoplay=1 to the inline javascript embed code. This will set a player at a specific embed location to autoplay. Use autoplay="1" for enabled, and autoplay="0" for disabled.
<img
style="max-width: 100%;"
class="vidyard-player-embed"
src="https://play.vidyard.com/{UUID}.jpg"
data-uuid="{UUID}"
data-v="4"
data-type="inline"
data-autoplay="1"
/>
You can use the same query string on a sharing page URL. The order of the query strings is not important, but the first one must start with ? and others must start with &.
https://watch.vidyard.com/share/{uuid}?autoplay=1
If you are only embedding the player into one place only, consider setting autoplay in the player behaviour settings.
Learn more about using query strings to override player settings.