Muting an embedded vimeo video

Question

On a website I am building I have a vimeo video embedded. The client needs to keep the sound on the video obviously for people that find it on vimeo. However for her website

Answer 1

You try insert ?muted=1 after link in attribute src

For example

<iframe id="vimeo_player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/257992348?muted=1">

Answer 2

For non-paying members

You just need to add the muted parameter. E.g.:

<iframe src="https://vimeo.com/48400332?autoplay=1&loop=1&muted=1" ></iframe>

 

For paid members

According to Vimeo, the background parameter is only supported for videos hosted by paid members.

Source: https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004485728-Autoplaying-and-looping-embedded-videos

Answer 3

I tried the examples in the answers with no luck. After looking into the documentation I noticed there is missing the parameter &player_id=IFRAME_ID. Maybe something changed in the Vimeo API, anyway the following example works for me:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://f.vimeocdn.com/js/froogaloop2.min.js"></script>
<iframe id="vimeo_player" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/4415083?api=1&player_id=vimeo_player&autoplay=1&loop=1&color=ffffff" width="1920" height="1080" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

<script>
$(function() {
    var vimeo_iframe = $('#vimeo_player')[0];
    var player = $f(vimeo_iframe);

    player.addEvent('ready', function() {
        player.api('setVolume', 0);
    });
});
</script>

Answer 4

I've found a way to do it. You start the video muted so it autoplays, then on the first timeupdate you set the volume to 1.

var options = {
    id: 'video_id_here',
    width: 640,
    loop: false,
    muted: true,
    autoplay: true
};

var player = new Vimeo.Player('vimeo', options);

player.setVolume(0);

player.on('timeupdate', set_autoplay_volume );

function set_autoplay_volume(){
    player.setVolume(1);
    player.off('timeupdate', set_autoplay_volume );
}

Answer 5

@Gadss answer works great but I found that you need update the iframe src to include the activation of the Vimeo api. Just include api=1 after the vimeo id.

I've also found that this sometimes doens't work on Safari for some reason.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="//f.vimeocdn.com/js/froogaloop2.min.js"></script>
    <iframe id="vimeo_player" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/4415083?api=1&title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=d01e2f&amp;autoplay=1" width="500" height="281"  frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
    <script>
    var iframe = $('#vimeo_player')[0],
        player = $f(iframe),
        status = $('.status');

        player.addEvent('ready', function() {
            player.api('setVolume', 0);
        });
    </script>

Answer 6

**Here is my solution: http://jsfiddle.net/jakeoblivion/phytdt9L/5/

(You will need your own play/pause mute/unmute icons)

  //load video muted
  var video = $("#myvideo");
  video.vimeo("play");
  video.vimeo("setVolume", 0);

    //toggle play/pause
  $('#play-pause').click(function() {
    $(this).toggleClass('play');
    if ($(this).hasClass('play')) {
      //pause video
      video.vimeo("pause");
      $(this).css('background', 'pink');
    } else {
      //unpause video
      video.vimeo("play");
      $(this).css('background', 'blue');
    }
  });

  //toggle mute/unmute
  $('#mute-unmute').click(function() {
    $(this).toggleClass('mute');
    if ($(this).hasClass('mute')) {
      //unmute video
  video.vimeo("setVolume", 1);
      $(this).css('background', 'green');

    } else {
      //mute video
  video.vimeo("setVolume", 0);
      $(this).css('background', 'red');
    }
  });

Spent ages trying and nothing seemed to work to.

I just wanted to have a Vimeo autoplay muted (volume 0) with simple Play/Pause Mute/Unmute controls, instead of their default ones. (feel free to use icons instead of the temporary colours I put).

(if you want to add the default controls back but keep muted, remove "?background=1". By default background=1 will set video.vimeo("setVolume", 0) and hide controls, so I also added the mute on load without the background=1 set).

Also note: "You’ll need to be running on a web server instead of opening the file directly in your browser. JS security restrictions will prevent the API from working when run locally."