1575075 - When putting an autoplaying video that's muted in PiP mode, it's impossible to unmute the video

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Video/Audio Controls, enhancement)

Description

[(no longer active)]

It would be nice to add a control to unmute a video if it has been set as muted on the page, as is the common practice to allow video autoplayback, for example.

Comment 1

[Glenn Watson [:gw]]

This bug is marked as a blocker on the WebRender picture caching improvements meta-bug. Was that an incorrect bug number?

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to Glenn Watson [:gw] from comment #1)

This bug is marked as a blocker on the WebRender picture caching improvements meta-bug. Was that an incorrect bug number?

My apologies!

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

I believe the muting capability can be controlled via the PiP indicator icon in the tab. I think that was the compromise that we came up with to avoid adding yet another icon to the tab.

Does clicking on the PiP indicator unmute the video for you in this scenario?

/cc'ing JSON_Voorhees and emanuela who had conversations about this a few months back when the PiP indicator was added.

Comment 4

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

ni?ing ehsan for the first part of comment 3.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) from comment #3)

I believe the muting capability can be controlled via the PiP indicator icon in the tab. I think that was the compromise that we came up with to avoid adding yet another icon to the tab.

Does clicking on the PiP indicator unmute the video for you in this scenario?

I'm sorry, I'm not 100% sure which PiP indicator icon you're referring to. It is probably an icon that I have never noticed before (currently typing this on a Linux machine so can't test at the moment.)

Due to the fact that I haven't noticed the icon existing I'm gonna go on a stretch and claim that it is not a great solution to this problem. :-)

Comment 6

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Attachment: Bug 1575075 - Add an audio toggle button in PiP to mute and unmute a video. r=mconley

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/3ac07ce7e004
Add an audio toggle button in PiP to mute and unmute a video. r=mconley

Comment 8

[Arthur Iakab [arthur_iakab]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3ac07ce7e004