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id: 30438913-b5fd-4b50-91b1-00dee9667d36
title: videoMute
slug: /node/reference/video/room-session/video-mute
description: videoMute method for the RoomSession class.
max-toc-depth: 3
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[roomsession-41]: /docs/server-sdk/v4/node/reference/video/room-session

### videoMute

* **videoMute**(`params`): `Promise<void>`

Puts the video of a given member on mute. Participants will see a mute image instead of the video stream.

#### Parameters

<ParamField path="params" type="object">
  Object containing the parameters of the method.
</ParamField>

<Indent>
  <ParamField path="memberId" type="string">
    ID of the member to mute.
  </ParamField>
</Indent>

#### Returns

`Promise<void>`

#### Example

In this example, we wait for a room to start and then wait for a second member to join the room.
When a second member joins the room, we mute the video of that member.
This example assumes that there is a [`RoomSession`][roomsession-41]
already active and that members are joining the room.

```js
import { SignalWire } from "@signalwire/realtime-api";

// Initialize the SignalWire client
const client = await SignalWire({ project: "ProjectID Here", token: "Token Here" });

// Access video client from the main client
const videoClient = client.video;

// Setup listener for when a room starts
await videoClient.listen({
  onRoomStarted: async (roomSession) => {
    console.log("Room started", roomSession.displayName);

    await roomSession.listen({
      onMemberJoined: (member) => {
        console.log("Member joined", member.name);

        // Video mute the member
        roomSession.videoMute({
          memberId: member.id,
        })
      },
      onMemberUpdated: (member) => {
        console.log("Member mute status updated", member.name, member.videoMuted);
      },
    });
  }
});
```