Anyway to force control panel on video windows playing commercial adds

Watching news videos on windows 10 PC, I notice that when commercial add videos come on, as they do periodically throughout those videos, there are no controls for the video window. That is, you cannot control the sound or the move the cursor as you can in the rest of the session,

So somehow, the commercial adds are invulnerable to any changes by user.

Is there away to force controls on the video window, or other ways to skip thru or skip entirely those nasty invasive adds?

lehnerus2000 said:

What program are you using to watch video (e.g. Internet browser, program or some App)?Note:Forum Rules say that members aren't allowed to discuss Ad Blocking.

Browsers (chrome usually)
So its the player that browers use... In all but the commercials the expected controls, are present,
pause, volume, playline cursor, stop, full-screen etc.

But when one of the ads come on those controls disappear. (In most ads; Sometimes the player will still contain a volume control but no others. But most often there are no controls at all).

I'm not really interested in blocking ... and I understand the role of ads, not only in this forum but in these videos... after all they are free. But someone is doing the work of making them available. And I would guess they get paid to do so.

But, like when watching TV, it should be left up to the user what they do during the adds. It seems a bit too much for advertisers to be able to remove all user controls during the commercials.

You can't even turn down the volume short of using the PC controls which requires finding the volume control, turning it down and try not to miss too much of the show when you quickly turn it back up once the commercial is over.

And apparently the laws that say the commercials are not supposed to jack up the volume when watching tv do not apply to TV recorded for display on PCs... because some of the ads being inserted are actually really really loud. If you happen to be listening with earbuds, you will regret it and will soon learn to snatch then out the moment any ads come up.... since there will be no way to control volume from the player.

By the way, I'm not talking about adds that aired when the show was aired for tv. Those have been removed or whatever. The adds I'm speaking of are inserted for the video prepared for showing on PC.

To see some examples you could go to `msnbc' and watch some of the free videos they show for PC use.

hput3 said:

Browsers (chrome usually)
So its the player that browers use... In all but the commercials the expected controls, are present,
pause, volume, playline cursor, stop, full-screen etc.

But when one of the ads come on those controls disappear. (In most ads; Sometimes the player will still contain a volume control but no others. But most often there are no controls at all).

I'm not really interested in blocking ... and I understand the role of ads, not only in this forum but in these videos... after all they are free. But someone is doing the work of making them available. And I would guess they get paid to do so.

But, like when watching TV, it should be left up to the user what they do during the adds. It seems a bit too much for advertisers to be able to remove all user controls during the commercials.

You can't even turn down the volume short of using the PC controls which requires finding the volume control, turning it down and try not to miss too much of the show when you quickly turn it back up once the commercial is over.

And apparently the laws that say the commercials are not supposed to jack up the volume when watching tv do not apply to TV recorded for display on PCs... because some of the ads being inserted are actually really really loud. If you happen to be listening with earbuds, you will regret it and will soon learn to snatch then out the moment any ads come up.... since there will be no way to control volume from the player.

By the way, I'm not talking about adds that aired when the show was aired for tv. Those have been removed or whatever. The adds I'm speaking of are inserted for the video prepared for showing on PC.

To see some examples you could go to `msnbc' and watch some of the free videos they show for PC use.

Mute the tab?

Edwin said:

Mute the tab?

Haaa... well doggone, slap an `intelligence challenged' sticker on my forehead. I've never noticed that kindly little volume icon, and If I had I probably still would not have thought to try clicking on it.

Thank you sir, that is big jump foreward

lehnerus2000 said:

The problem is that video players on websites can be built (by default) without controls.

In HTML5, "controls" are an "Optional Attribute" for the "video" tag.
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_video.asp

When you are playing a video, right click on it and check out the options that are available.
Chrome, Firefox (and its forks) and Opera have useful options in the context menu.
I don't know if Edge has the same options.

You can also use the Web Developer Tools (specifically the Inspector) to get the video to open in a new tab and then it will have controls.