Vimeo Video Player in HTML5

This Vimeo doc might help. This is working for us: You need a Vimeo Pro account. Get the video link from the Distribution tab when looking at the video settings in Vimeo: Add the video link to your HTML5 video tag: <video width=”320″ height=”240″ controls> <source type=”video/mp4″ src=”https://player.vimeo.com/external/*.hd.mp4?s=*&profile_id=*”> </video>

Muting an embedded vimeo video

In case it helps anyone, Vimeo have added a ‘background’ parameter for embedding videos, that autoplays videos silently. In some cases that will be useful where people want to mute videos – this is their example: <iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/76979871?background=1″ width=”500″ height=”281″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

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