Play.html always starts mute

[dapollon83]

Hello,

we are make some test with ant media server.
We are streaming through web page http://10.0.0.139:5080/webRTCApp and that's ok.
Then we are trying to see the stream using play.html and url similar to http://10.0.0.139:5080/WebRTCAppEE/play.html?name=474803532157798475329857
Everything works smooth but audio is always mute when play starts and we have to switch on it manually.
Is there any way like a switch or something else to have the audio mute disabled when autoplay starts?

Thanks

[eneskuluk]

This is a default behaviour of the browser. If autoplay is enabled, audio is muted.
This is a caution that has been taken in the browsers in order to prevent any malicious behaviour when you enter the website.
As a summary, this is not a result of our implementation. As a result of browser's policy.
Regards.

[mekya]

Just let me add somethings.

You can make it unmuted by changing this file
https://github.com/ant-media/StreamApp/blob/master/src/main/webapp/play.html#L50

Basically this file resides in /usr/local/antmedia/webapps/WebRTCAppEE/play.html

As @eneskuluk mentions, this is about chrome policy. It may not start autoplay in some cases if video has audio.
You may need to manual interaction to play the whole video.

For further information, take a look at this blog post
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes