Video Audio Volume

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Hi Andrew,

Is this specific to a single badge or is it an issue you notice between every video? Additionally, is it the music that comes in too loud or is it that the video begins too suddenly for you to adjust headphone levels. Any additional information you can provide would help us to understand your issue better.

Thanks, Tommy

Hi Tommy,

I was working through Google Maps Integration lessons, and for those it was quite a jump. For example, I set the volume to about 5-8%. If you complete a quiz and then return to the main page, the timeframe between page load and audio is sometimes so short that the jump from 5-8% to over 90% can be hard on the ears. I think it's more noticeable when someone is speaking because you want to listen to it and turn the volume down at the same time. It's not a good user experience.

My feeling is that if we set a volume, that a ping back to store our preferred volume setting for either a series of videos/course or generally might help improve the user-experience for those who change the default settings.

This is my preferred volume for that series:

Thanks Tommy! Andrew

Thanks for clearing that up Andrew! I have no idea how possible that fix is, but I'll definitely pass this on as a UX issue.

For now, I'd suggest adjusting your system volume to a preferred level while you're watching Treehouse videos, just so you don't get a huge jump when the player volume resets between each video.

Thanks, Tommy

Hi Tommy,

After a couple of videos, I did exactly that.

Here's where they can look:

http://mediaelementjs.com/#howitworks

Particularly, there's an Events section where this event, 'volumechange', can have a callback bound to it.

Would something like this work?

$('#mep_0').bind({volumechange:function(e){ $.post('/',{volume:$(e.target).volume()}); }});

Thanks Tommy

I just wanted to follow up and let you know that this is on our Dev team's to do list. Thanks for being so thorough.

Thanks, Tommy