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by munificent 4470 days ago
> Ideas on making that more discoverable?

1. Start off muted. 2. If the user views a video that has sound and is muted, put some small verbiage under the video saying it's muted.
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Sir_Cmpwn 4470 days ago
I don't like "start off muted". You can upload proper videos to MediaCrush, why should they be muted?

How about a little balloon thingy on the volume UI that tells you it'll be remembered?

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Houshalter 4470 days ago
Perhaps have a separate url for "proper" video? Or an option to turn off the mute by default (as opposed to having it turn off automatically the first time you unmute a video.)

Or just require videos with sound to click to play. It's the combination of sound and autoplay that is annoying.

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Sir_Cmpwn 4470 days ago
Require click-to-play on video with audio is a good idea.

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/544

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