Since https://codereview.chromium.org/2413653002, when audio authorization fails it causes the video to play back muted.
We should add an entry to chrome://media-internals to log when this happens so that it is easy to tell what happened without having to look at chrome debug logs.
sandersd@ is currently working on improvements to chrome://media-internals, so he should be able to point you to the code to use and help with questions.
Comment 1 by olka@chromium.org
, Nov 30 2016