I have a video I want to add to my homepage but the feature video format takes you through to youtube which looks terrible and the background video is muted but format on page looks good. How can I add an option to turn sound on?? I have seen this question asked many times but no simple answer, thanks
And it wont get a simple answer,
Background video should not play audio as fundamentally no controls to turn off that audio exist except for the close tab button < – see the problem? .
So you would have to build a video/audio controller an advanced customization such as with http://playerjs.io/ .
Further even for foreground active video it is actively discouraged to autoplay both video and audio.
Especially audio it is such an internet annoyance that it is being curtailed at the browser level.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/
Do not autoplay audio unless you are selling music, vide. I.e. a valid reason that’s more than you just like the music. Do not create a situation that will annoy visitors to your store it’s a good way to increase bounce rates and lose revenue.
By having the video in the foreground so users can use the controls from that embedded videos platform, or native video controls.
thank you.
I think there should be an easy option to allow visitors to unmute a video that auto plays…