Functional requirements

savages

When one video is played, the next one is allowed to play automatically

Karl

savages When one video is played, the next one is allowed to play automatically

There is already an option for this in Javascript config, see video_autoplay.

_c.config = {
    popup: {
        video_autoplay: true, // autoplay all videos
    }
}

David

how do i do this with only mute?

Karl

David how do i do this with only mute?

You mean you want to autoplay videos on popup navigation, but you want to force audio OFF?

And what about if user turns ON the audio? Should then next video still be audio OFF? Doesn't seem logical.

David

it might not be useful in all cases, but I have a gallery where I would like to use this if possible, but I couldn't find a suitable solution

Karl

David it might not be useful in all cases, but I have a gallery where I would like to use this if possible, but I couldn't find a suitable solution

I'm open to adding options, but the request is not entirely clear. Do you want to always force audio OFF (mute) on all videos? And do you want user to be able to enable audio manually?

David

yes

Karl

Ok, this can be achieved by setting the <audio mute> attribute. I'm struggling to see the usefulness of this ... It means the audio is always OFF, even when the visitors clicks PLAY. Visitor will have to enable the audio manually for each video they want to play.

David

I have a folder in which the image of the videos is the main thing, the sound is not, sometimes the videos are disturbingly loud, I am the only user, so it is not a problem if I have to turn on the sound sometimes
I can't find the right setting for mute, that's why I asked about it
so far I have muted the sound of the browser, which works, I just thought it would be more useful if I start the video without sound automatically

Karl

I don't see much benefit of this for average users, as it's a bit invasive to always force the audio mute for all videos (if the user has no interest in this). Besides, if there is only one user, they could easily turn down/off the audio on the device, or use a browser extension that mutes audio (there are several). In most browsers, there is also an option to disable sound on a per-website basis:

On the other hand, it would not be too complicated to add a video_mute option, but I would perhaps prefer an automated approach, where Files will "remember" the volume of the audio player. If you mute the first video, following videos will start at volume 0 also ... This would basically allow the volume to remain the same, without having to add clumsy config options.