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KayleaMitchem-b
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22 hours ago

Automatically mute audio when playing embedded videos from external sites

Hi all!

Me again with another question about embedded videos from external sites. 

I'm struggling with finding a straightforward way to automatically mute audio when a user clicks to play a video that is inserted from an external site (i.e. not uploaded directly into storyline). Trigger wizard doesn't see the video object as media so I can't assign the usual triggers etc to stop the audio when they user clicks to play the video in YT. 

The closest I can get is by creating a screenshot of the video with a play button, then uploading the video to autoplay in a layer which does add quite a bit of a workaround, is there anything obvious I might be missing so I don't have to do this for every video in quite a video-content heavy piece of elearning?

Thanks! 

  • I was going to recommend the solution you are already using, ie using a layer.

    If the audio is timeline based, you should be able to pause the timeline though as this wouldn't affect web embedded video. They should play independently of each other.

    Otherwise, it would be a JavaScript solution to loop through and pause all audio.