Starting with Vista you have to use the Core Audio API to control the system volume. It’s a COM API that doesn’t support automation and thus requires a lot of boilerplate to use from .NET and PowerShell. Anyways the code bellow let you access the [Audio]::Volume and [Audio]::Mute properties from PowerShell. This also work on … Read more
In case it helps anyone, Vimeo have added a ‘background’ parameter for embedding videos, that autoplays videos silently. In some cases that will be useful where people want to mute videos – this is their example: <iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/76979871?background=1″ width=”500″ height=”281″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
$(“video”).prop(‘muted’, true); //mute AND $(“video”).prop(‘muted’, false); //unmute See all events here (side note: use attr if in jQuery < 1.6)