About Player Parameters

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a lowercase language code, or "main" if you want the video to default to the main audio track

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The Vimeo player only plays one video at a time. To have multiple videos on the same page, you need to add a specific parameter to each one.

⚠️ Note: In order for autopause to function, you must have cookies enabled in your browser.

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Adding this parameter will: 

1. Disable all player controls (including play/pause).
2. Set the video to loop.
3. Set the video to autoplay.
4. Mute the video's audio.

To prevent looping or autoplay, use the controls=0 parameter. 

Setting this parameter will not disable keyboard controls.

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Video must be hosted by a Starter, Standard, Advanced, Plus, Pro, Business, Premium, or Enterprise account. 

⚠️Note: Chromecast is not supported on iOS

1-4 [hex codes] - comma separated.

(Example: colors=000000,00adef,

ffffff,000000)

Specify the colors of the player.

Colors may be overridden by the embedded settings of the video.

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Setting this parameter to "true" blocks the player from collecting session data and analytics, similar to activating a Do Not Track feature in your browser.

⚠️ Note: With DNT active, some essential cookies will still be active. Visit Vimeo Player Cookies to view this list.

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The initial video quality, shown briefly before adaptive streaming starts.

This is adjustable for faster loading or better clarity. 

Lower quality, like 360p, loads faster; higher quality, like 1080p or 4K, offers better resolution immediately.

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Play the video again when it reaches the end, infinitely.

💡Tip: The loop option can also be selected as a video’s end screen within the embed settings page. Read more at About end screens.

The highest quality the player will automatically select during video playback. The player chooses the best quality up to this value without exceeding it. 

Setting this can help reduce bandwidth consumption. 

You can select any value from the quality menu in the video player, including 360p, 720p, 1080p, 2K, and 4K.

The lowest quality the player will automatically switch to during video playback. The player selects the optimal quality without falling below this threshold. 

Setting this parameter helps ensure viewers receive high-resolution video while considering bandwidth constraints. 

You can select any quality option available in the player, including 360p, 720p, 1080p, 2K, and 4K.

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Set the video to mute on load. Viewers can still adjust the volume preferences in the player.

Can be used to unmute background videos or work around autoplay limitations in certain browsers, such as Chrome and Safari.

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The player's pre-playback loading behavior aligns with the native preload property of the HTMLMediaElement interface, with some added options:

• Use "metadata" to load only the video's metadata immediately.
• Use "metadata_on_hover" to load metadata when the user hovers over the player.
• Use "auto" to load metadata and the first few seconds of video right away.
• Use "auto_on_hover" to load metadata and initial video segments only when hovered.
• Use "none" to prevent any data loading until playback starts.

Preloading more data helps the video start faster. Therefore, "auto" and "auto_on_hover" lead to quicker startup, but they require more bandwidth since video segments load whether the user plays the video or not. For more details on Vimeo’s bandwidth limits, visit Bandwidth on Vimeo.

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By default, the Vimeo player is set to "Auto" mode, meaning it chooses the highest possible video quality based on the viewer's bandwidth and other factors in the playback environment.

Quality lets you specify the default playback resolution for your embedded video. If you select a quality that isn’t available, the parameter will be ignored, and the embed will default to Auto.

💡Tip: Choosing a higher quality setting (like 4K) might lead to excessive buffering and choppy playback for viewers.

Video must be hosted by a Starter, Standard, Advanced, Plus, Pro, Business, Premium, or Enterprise account.

Available for uploaded videos and archived events. It doesn't support live events.

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Used to automatically begin playback at a specific point in time. Learn how at 'Start playback at a specific timecode'.

💡Tip: This parameter does not require a prefixed question mark as all others do.

A lowercase language code and optionally the locale and type of text track.

(Examples: "en", "en-US", "en.captions", "en.subtitles")

Displays a specified cc/subtitle track by default in the player, if available. 
 

If you select a language preference that hasn't yet been uploaded for your video, the text track setting will be ignored, and the embedded video may load with captions or subtitles turned off by default.

All videos with captions or subtitles are available

(note: captions and subtitles must be uploaded by the video owner. Read more at Captions and subtitles)

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The transparent setting is active if the color hasn't been specified via a setting or parameter. 

Typically, the Vimeo player's iframe background is transparent by default. If disabled, the background will change to black. Black bars will be visible on the player when the iframe's height and width don't match the video's original aspect ratio, such as setting the iframe to 4:3 while the original video is 16:9.

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