element-hq / element-hq/element-android
Feature request: setting to mute videos (before they play)
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- Kotlin
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
I would like to be able to watch videos sent by contacts without the audio playing automatically.
#### Why would you like to do it?
I cannot know in advance how loud some video snippets can be. This is both annoying and awkward in almost every situation.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
It could be nice to add an option in the settings to choose whether or not to play all videos muted by default.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
Setting the device's volume, but I always forget to do so. Managing the notification and media volume all the time is also a pain on Android.
### Additional context
Equivalent for Element web: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/10686
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