Prevent errors other than autoplay errors from muting video #740
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What
When there is a playback error, try to determine if it is an autoplay error before trying to play the video muted.
Why
Fixes #529 (at least in Chrome browsers).
When debugging #529 locally, I found many different playback errors get caught in the
catchblock (e.gThe play() request was interrupted by a new load request.). In these cases we don't want to mute the video, so I added a conditional to only unmute if the error is related to autoplay.After this change, I can successfully load a view with the video unmuted, in both Chrome Desktop and the Android Companion App. Safari is harder to fix because both autoplay and non-autoplay errors are reported as
AbortError.