Vimeo API - remove pause/play onmouseover & at start

This is a simple little project - I need help using the Vimeo API to disable the the pause/play controls that show up onmouseover and at the start. Ideally I would like to remove the pause play controls all together, But Vimeo doesn't allow so. If you could just make it so they don't appear after the first few seconds regardless of where the mouse is in the video that would be great.