I’m must be missing something huge but here
it says clearly that in order for a video to autoplay it should work on Desktop.
But I import a video
Autoplay is on
But when I preview the video does not autoplay.
Thank you for the explanation.
it says clearly that in order for a video to autoplay it should work on Desktop.
Don't get me wrong but have tried the search function for this? 
There are plenty of topics that cover video play.
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People not always use the right words in their answers and therefore finding the topic that really talks about autpplaying a video on Desktop is not easy.
Modern browsers require the video to be muted or to have user interaction to autoplay.
Note that your documentation link is to v2's documentation; this is definitely out of date since the status of vide playback in browsers has changed a lot since then. That said, even the v4 Audio & Video documentation needs to be updated 
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The current UI for the video in the Element Inspector better reflects this:
You should as Google points to these pages while typing these basic keywords.
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