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How can I hide youtube player bottom controls

How can I hide youtube player bottom controls?

When i embed a movie, i don't want the bottom toolber control to be displayed. it is enough in some cases to use the play/pause  functionality (by clicking in the middle of the player).

How to control this by changing the embed string parameters?

Thanks.


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This is automatically added by youtube web pages, there is no way to turn it off, otherwise, the viewer could not stop the play feature, and youtube considers that important, as would I and many others.  Maybe someone else can find a way, but I don't see any.
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Thanks for your reply!
Maybe there is a way to display the toolbar only on mouseover?
I thought that the same way i change the player size and other params (of its object html tag), i can also control the display its buttons and toolbar.
is there any way to do it?
I saw there is javascript and flash api to enable control over the player. Here is a link for a demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xZBfVsMzs

I noticed that you can hid the toolbar and add alternative links to control the player instead the toolbar.

Can any one give code example using that api to hide the toolbar?

thanks a lot for any help!
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how about this...
make an invisible GIF the size of the screen portion of the player and z-index it on top of the player and not the toolbar on the bottom
that way u can "mouse" over it and not active it but still activate mouse over reaction on the toolbar...

kinda cooky...but does provide the desired effect
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A code example using the API can be found here:
YouTube Chromeless Player Example page
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Thanks a lot for your simple and accurate solution!