feature request: Add background=1 ability

First, is background=1 deprecated?

I have a PRO account and even when I disable ALL embed preferences, you can still see a pause button when you hover over a video, which makes it annoying if you want to have a silent, short, and looping video in the background of your header to your homepage.

However, I can still use background=1 in the iframe source and have it go away. But that option has been removed from the official documentation and it’s not an option in player.js

I have this crappy work around but I’d rather not do this

var player new Vimeo.Player('elementId', options);
player.ready().then(function(){
      var src = $('iframe').attr('src');
      $('iframe').attr('src', src + "&background=1");
    });

Please don’t deprecate/remove this feature!!

And please add it as part of an option in player.js!

thank you

[FranciscoG]

So I took a stab at it and got it working in a sort of hack work-around. It’s all in the embed.js file. Just a few lines of code: ( disregard the typo in my branch name 😜 )

https://github.com/FranciscoG/player.js/blob/backgound-option/src/lib/embed.js#L21

https://github.com/FranciscoG/player.js/blob/backgound-option/src/lib/embed.js#L45

https://github.com/FranciscoG/player.js/blob/backgound-option/src/lib/embed.js#L93

it looks like the iframe html is being generate in an ajax called to the vimeo url. Background is being submitted but is stripped out in the return object, so I add it back in on the return.

I’m not going to submit a pull request cause I don’t think what I wrote is great, plus it needs tests, but I do hope it’s something you consider adding. 😄

[luwes]

This has been added for a while I believe.