responsive videos

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February 7, 2024
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Hello. I am still using dreamweaver and I used the Responsive Video Embed on the Insert Panel as seen below:

The code looks like this:

The video is on my server.

It plays fine, but I cannot find a way to hide the video controls. Been trying for a while now.

There is a way to hide the controls in a html5 video tag, but I am having a rough time with the CSS for the video tag.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Ben

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osgood_

Brainiac

I'm not sure why you don't want the video controls, maybe they are intrusive for you? You know you can create a more descreet play button, which you can overlay onto the video, a bit like the youTube play button if that would be more suitable........shout out if you want an example.

As long as you don't have noise associated with the video onload then I think its OK to have it autoplay onload, many, many websites do that as its all about movement, animation these days, not static, motionless experiences! Unless I'm mistaken Chrome no longer has the ability to switch off autoplay unless it was re-instated in newer versions..........I think you can still switch off sound in the browser, however few will know how to do that and you can switch off your computer sound anyway if you're on the internet at work or home, if it's that annoying to you......but its still courteous to allow a visitor to choose sound on a video - autoplay should be optional, as long as its a muted video.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

People with Autoplay Blocking will not see video that contains an audio track. It will be blocked such that they see only an empty space where the player should be. See below for more about Media & Autoplay.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_guide

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

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osgood_

Brainiac

People with Autoplay Blocking

By @Nancy OShea

The question is how many have autoplay blocking applied or a more pointed question is how many even know how to do it. In my experience no-one but geeky people, minorities mess around with their browser settings.

Some you win, some you lose - that's always going to be the case, you can't please all of the people all of the time - either produce a fairly sedentary website, which is useless to most, or risk upsetting a minority and produce something a little more exciting - I don't have the definitive answer.

Does Chrome show and play the video assuming you can't block autoplay in that browser - at the last count that had 64% percent of the market, Firefox less than 3%

As I covered in an earlier post there's the option to switch off your computer sound whilst using the internet if youre that sensitive or are in an environment where sound may be disruptive, use it would be my advice!

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

WHY?

Hiding player controls is annoying & not recommended for all sorts of reasons:

It adversely affect user's access to media.
It removes volume/mute/play/pause/fullscreen/replay/closed captioning.
Many people have autoplay blockers. They won't see anything.
Office workers who share space with co-workers need player controls.
Parents with a sleeping baby nearby need player controls.
Podcast listeners need a way to turn off competing media.
In the absence of player controls, annoyed people will be forced to leave your site.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

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beng2000Author

Known Participant

Nancy, very good reasons NOT to take controls out. Instead of videos with no controls, what I really want is animation. A small amount on the index page. A new thing to learn, which I don't mind. Thanks!