Can you hide the controls of a YouTube embed without enabling autoplay?

<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qUJYqhKZrwA?autoplay=1&showinfo=0&controls=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

If you remove ?autoplay=1 the video does not work. Looks like you cannot use the controls parameter without autoplay enabled.

Not sure why this is not mentioned in the YouTube embed writeup.

Hope I'm wrong.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#controls

Set autoplay=0

<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qUJYqhKZrwA?autoplay=0&showinfo=0&controls=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

As seen here: Autoplay=0 Test

To continue using the iframe YouTube, you should only have to change ?autoplay=1 to ?autoplay=0.

Another way to accomplish this would be by using the YouTube JavaScript Player API. (https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference)

Edit: the YouTube JavaScript Player API is no longer supported.

<div id="howToVideo"></div>

<script type="application/javascript">

    var ga = document.createElement('script');
    ga.type = 'text/javascript';
    ga.async = false;
    ga.src = 'http://www.youtube.com/player_api';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

    var done = false;
    var player;
      
    function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
        player = new YT.Player('howToVideo', {
            height: '390',
            width: '640',
            videoId: 'qUJYqhKZrwA',
        playerVars: {
            controls: 0,
            disablekb: 1
        },
          events: {
            'onReady': onPlayerReady,
            'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
          }
        });
    }
    function onPlayerReady(evt) {
        console.log('onPlayerReady', evt);
    }
    function onPlayerStateChange(evt) {
        console.log('onPlayerStateChange', evt);
        if (evt.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING && !done) {
            setTimeout(stopVideo, 6000);
            done = true;
        }
    }
    
    function stopVideo() {
        console.log('stopVideo');
        player.stopVideo();
    }

</script>

Here is a jsfiddle for the example: http://jsfiddle.net/fgkrj/

Note that player controls are disabled in the "playerVars" part of the player. The one sacrifice you make is that users are still able to pause the video by clicking on it. I would suggest writing a simple javascript function that subscribes to a stop event and calls player.playVideo().

use autoplay=0

autoplay takes 2 values.

Values: 0 or 1. Default is 0. Sets whether or not the initial video will autoplay when the player loads.

the important part

autoplay=0&showinfo=0&controls=0

Here is the demo for ur problem FIDDLE

?modestbranding=1&autohide=1&showinfo=0&controls=0

autohide=1

is something that I never found... but it was the key :) I hope it's help

If you add this ?showinfo=0&iv_load_policy=3&controls=0 before the end of your src, it will take out everything but the bottom right YouTube logo
working example: http://jsfiddle.net/42gxdf0f/1/

Follow this https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters for more info about video controls like:

<iframe id="video_iframe" width="660" height="415" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{{course_url}}?start=7&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&iv_load_policy=3&rel=0"
                frameborder="0"
                allowfullscreen></iframe>

start=7&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&iv_load_policy=3&rel=0" frameborder="0"
>all controls are described in there

To remove you tube controls and title you can do something like this

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zP0Wnb9RI9Q?autoplay=1&showinfo=0&controls=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen ></iframe>

code with output

showinfo=0 is used to remove title and &controls=0 is used for remove controls like volume,play,pause,expend.

You can hide the "Watch Later" Button by using "Youtube-nocookie" (this will not hide the share Button)

Adding controls=0 will also remove the video control bar at the bottom of the screen and using modestbranding=1 will remove the youtube logo at bottom right of the screen

However using them both doesn't works as expected (it only hides the video control bar)

<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fNb-DTEb43M?controls=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Autoplay works only with /v/ instead of /embed/, so change the src to:

src="//www.youtube.com/v/qUJYqhKZrwA?autoplay=1&showinfo=0&controls=0"