Hide the play button in a vimeo video
For chromeless background-style videos
Both youtube and vimeo have protected their right to place a big play button in the center of your videos, and until recently their APIs did not allow for its easy removal. Vimeo “experimentally” added a method of hiding the play button as part of an initiative to allow background videos, as posted here, by simply using this in the embed code:
<iframe id="projectplayer" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/148894857?api=1&background=1&mute=0&loop=0"></iframe>
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where the button is disabled with the
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“background=1” mute=0” loop=0”