How do you mute an embedded Youtube player?

Question

I\'m experimenting with the Youtube player but I can\'t get it to mute by default.

function onPlayerReady() {
    player.playVideo();
    // Mute?!
    playe         


        

Answer 1

Turns out player.mute() works fine. It only needed the parameter enablejsapi=1. Initial test in the fiddle didn't work because the player initiation had an error. The following works.

HTML:

JS:

var player;

function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
    player = new YT.Player('ytplayer', {
        events: {
            'onReady': onPlayerReady
        }
    });
}

function onPlayerReady(event) {
    player.mute();
    player.playVideo();
}

Fiddle

^{Credit to Gagandeep Singh and Anton King for pointing to enablejsapi=1}