# Twitch embeds are small and shouldn't auto-play
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [28. Februar 2015 um 18:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837 "2015-02-28T18:18:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)
#### Post date: [28. Februar 2015 um 18:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/1 "2015-02-28T18:18:12Z")
YouTube videos don’t auto-play, so I don’t think Twitch embeds should either. Also, the display is small compared to YouTube (300x150 vs. 480x270). A consistent width for embeds would be cool.
Oh and the preview display for Twitch channels is kind of odd (it shows the channel’s profile image but only the embed is shown once the post is published).
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### Author:  [@chapel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapel)
#### Post date: [28. Februar 2015 um 21:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/2 "2015-02-28T21:25:33Z")
Unfortunately this is what Twitch proves in their meta data that Discourse uses to embed.
It would require creating a custom Twitch Onebox parser which would do it’s own logic. That or similar to LazyYT, create a LazyTwitch which would make a better preview and click to play without actually loading the Twitch embed.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7. Mai 2016 um 16:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/3 "2016-05-07T16:50:41Z")
This is a Twitch issue as @chapel noted. Maybe they have improved it by now?
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### Author:  [@DanielMarquard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DanielMarquard)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 00:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/4 "2017-06-01T00:29:15Z")
Just found this topic doing a random search for something unrelated. If this is still a problem for you, I developed a Twitch Onebox to address this.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-onebox-for-discourse/54997](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-onebox-for-discourse/54997)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 00:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/5 "2017-06-01T00:31:35Z")
I don’t think Twitch oneboxes autoplay any more do they @eviltrout?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 15:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/6 "2017-06-01T15:01:26Z")
They don’t seem to embed the video anymore:
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 18:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/7 "2017-06-01T18:10:50Z")
We should probably handle Twitch natively with a custom player onebox as they are big enough to justify it.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 20:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/9 "2017-06-01T20:26:12Z")
I added better twitch embedding support in the onebox gem:
[https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/7f4b9ceacee10a3b5a580393191c606e2cd44594](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/7f4b9ceacee10a3b5a580393191c606e2cd44594)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [1. Juni 2017 um 20:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/10 "2017-06-01T20:47:21Z")
https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=ZealousLaconicTriangleCoolCat&parent=meta.discourse.org&autoplay=false
Let’s test with this brazilian gem 😉
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4. Dezember 2025 um 11:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitch-embeds-are-small-and-shouldnt-auto-play/25837/11 "2025-12-04T11:35:44Z")