How to mute video played in AVPlayer?

Question

Im playing a video in AVPlayer, and now I need to mute the audio alone while playing it. Please suggest how to do in objective C.

Thanks, Suresh

self.avPlayer.muted = true; – BennyTheNerd Feb 04 '17 at 00:05 — BennyTheNerd, Feb 04 '17 at 00:05

bcattle · Answer 1 · 2017-09-11T17:13:56.223

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Since iOS7 you can set the AVPlayer isMuted property to true.

In Objective C the property is called muted.

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayer/1387544-ismuted

edited Sep 11 '17 at 17:13

answered Jan 28 '15 at 03:34

bcattle

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self.avPlayer.muted = true; – BennyTheNerd Feb 04 '17 at 00:05
Updated for Swift 3 – bcattle Sep 11 '17 at 17:14

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '18 at 04:34

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For Swift 4 above to make AVPlayer video mute

self.player.isMuted = true

answered Nov 15 '18 at 04:34

Hardik Thakkar

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This property does not mute the audio. – AsifHabib Apr 04 '19 at 08:50
I my case i have tested above code and then posted here. – Hardik Thakkar Apr 04 '19 at 13:41

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '11 at 04:00

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This should see you through...

AVURLAsset *asset = [[avPlayer currentItem] asset];
NSArray *audioTracks = [asset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeAudio];

// Mute all the audio tracks
NSMutableArray *allAudioParams = [NSMutableArray array];
for (AVAssetTrack *track in audioTracks) {
    AVMutableAudioMixInputParameters *audioInputParams =    [AVMutableAudioMixInputParameters audioMixInputParameters];
    [audioInputParams setVolume:0.0 atTime:kCMTimeZero];
    [audioInputParams setTrackID:[track trackID]];
    [allAudioParams addObject:audioInputParams];
}
AVMutableAudioMix *audioZeroMix = [AVMutableAudioMix audioMix];
[audioZeroMix setInputParameters:allAudioParams];

[[avPlayer currentItem] setAudioMix:audioZeroMix];

answered Jun 04 '11 at 04:00

friedFingers

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I have tried this method, but it is not functioning in the simulator. I'm using AVPlayer to play .mov file. Can you suggest any other solution. – Suresh Jun 06 '11 at 09:52
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I find that doing it this way interrupts any music you might be playing through Music app or iTunes, etc. Is there a way to continue music playing in the background? – gotnull Jun 23 '14 at 03:34
Great, just change the first "AVURLAsset" to "AVAsset" and it's perfect. – Eran Talmor Jul 07 '15 at 07:25
This looks very complicated, no ? – Frederic Adda Jul 19 '18 at 14:31

BennyTheNerd · Answer 4 · 2017-07-06T05:34:00.070

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SWIFT 2.0 and SWIFT 3.0 (As of July 5, 2017)

For those of you curious about Swift it is simply just:

self.avPlayer.muted = true

EASIEST way for OBJECTIVE-C:

self.avPlayer.muted = true;

edited Jul 06 '17 at 05:34

answered Feb 04 '17 at 00:04

BennyTheNerd

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Sorry it's not working for you Vineesh. It's working on my Swift 3.0 and 3.1. Could it be other variables you have going there? – BennyTheNerd Sep 11 '17 at 16:18

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 20 '19 at 16:03

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player.isMuted = true is not working for me.

In my case I need the video permanently mute. So I used the below code to achieve this.

self.player.volume = 0.0

answered Jun 20 '19 at 16:03

john raja

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 04 '18 at 17:11

You need set muted false when the video is playing status.

add listener:

[itemPlayer addObserver:self
             forKeyPath:kStatusKey
                options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionInitial | NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew
                context:@"AVPlayerStatus"];

code:

-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)path ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
    if (context == @"AVPlayerStatus") {
        AVPlayerStatus status = [[change objectForKey:NSKeyValueChangeNewKey] integerValue];
        switch (status) {
            case AVPlayerStatusReadyToPlay: {
                if (isMuted) {
                    layerPlayer.player.muted = true;
                }
            }
            default:
                break;
        }
    }
}

How to mute video played in AVPlayer?

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