About Player Parameters

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

true, false

OR

1,0

The Vimeo player is designed to play only one Vimeo video at a time.

Therefore, you will need to add this parameter to each video if you want to have more than one Vimeo video playing on the same page.

⚠️ Warnings:

- Autopause functionality is not supported in Internet Explorer.

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

true, false

OR

1,0

Automatically start playback of the video.

⚠️ Warning: Autoplay may be blocked in some environments, such as IOS, Chrome 66+, and Safari 11+. In these cases, we’ll revert to standard playback, requiring viewers to initiate playback.

true, false

OR

1,0

Adding this parameter will have the following effect:

1. All player toggles and elements will be turned off (including the play/pause button)
2. The video will automatically loop
3. The video will be set to autoplay
4. The video will be muted

If you prefer that your video does not loop or autoplay, check out the controls=0 parameter below. 

Note that setting this parameter will not disable keyboard controls. 

true, false

OR

1,0

All videos

(but only if the video owner allows)

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.

true, false

OR

1,0

This parameter will hide all elements in the player (playbar, sharing buttons, etc.) for a chromeless experience. 

⚠️ Warnings:

When using this parameter, the play/pause button will be hidden. To start playback for your viewers, you'll need to either enable autoplay, use keyboard controls, or implement our player SDK to start and control playback.

Note that setting this parameter will not disable keyboard controls. 

true, false

OR

1,0

Setting this parameter to "true" will block the player from tracking session data and analytics. 

(Will have the same effect as enabling a Do Not Track setting in your browser.)

⚠️ Warning:

When DNT is enabled, certain essential cookies will remain set. You may find a list of such cookies here.

true, false

OR

1,0

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

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

true, false

OR

1,0

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.

true, false

OR

1,0

true, false

OR

1,0

true, false

OR

1,0

All videos 

(but only if the video owner allows)

The loading behavior for the player before playback is initiated. This follows the basic principles of the native preload property (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/preload) of the HTMLMediaElement interface, with a few additional values:
- Specify "metadata" to load metadata immediately.
- Specify "metadata_on_hover" to load metadata for the video only when the user hovers over the player.
- Specify "auto" to load metadata and the first few seconds of video immediately.
- Specify "auto_on_hover" to load metadata and the first few seconds of video only when the user hovers over the player.
- Specify "none" if you're not loading any data until playback begins.
Preloading more data makes playback start more quickly, so using the "auto" and "auto_on_hover" values results in quicker startup than the other options, but may use more bandwidth since video segments are loaded regardless of the user plays the video. To learn more about Vimeo’s bandwidth limits, visit our Help Center (https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12426275404305-Bandwidth-on-Vimeo).

By default, the Vimeo player is set to "Auto" mode, which means it selects the highest video quality possible, taking into account the viewer's bandwidth and other factors in the playback environment.

The quality parameter allows you to specify the default playback quality for your embedded video. If you select a quality that doesn’t exist for your particular video, the quality parameter will be ignored, and the embed will default to Auto.

⚠️ Warnings:

- Please use caution when implementing this parameter. Defaulting to a higher quality (like 4K) may result in excessive buffering and choppy playback for your viewers. 

This parameter is only supported for uploaded videos and archived events that are embedded. It is not supported for live events. 

true, false

OR

1,0

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

Note: 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 given cc/subtitle track by default in the player (pending the cc/subtitle track is available). 

If you enter a language preference that hasn't yet been uploaded for your particular video, the text track parameter will be ignored, and your embedded video may load with closed captions (CC) or subtitles disabled 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)

true, false

OR

1,0

All videos

(but only if the video owner allows)

true, false

OR

1,0

By default, the background of the player iframe on Vimeo is transparent.

When disabled, the iframe background will become black. Black bars will be applied to the player when the height and width dimensions for the embedded player do not match the original aspect ratio of a video-- e.g the iframe dimensions are set to 4:3 square, but the original video is 16:9 wide.

true, false

OR

1,0