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

**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."