**Suggestion to**
1. move the play button overlay, into the bottom-left corner (bottom-right in RTL wikis), into the bottom-left corner,and
2. and increase the contrast for the pre-mouseover state, similar to the example from http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30016007
**Context:**: The current location obscures the center of the thumbnails, which drastically reduces their aesthetic and functional use as still images.
This has led to videos being moved down from the lead-image position (with actual still images, from the videos, as replacements).
It is also often hard to see the play button, because we've purposefully lowered the contrast due to the overlay being in the center. (cf. {T50377})
This has recently beenwas discussed at
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=iki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28idea_lab%29&oldid=633858409/Archive_15#Less_intrusive_video_player_icon (October 2014)
* https://www.mail-archive.com/multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00913.html (October 2014)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=633859616#Less_intrusive_video_player_icon
(Tangential see also for T64369iki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_132#Less_intrusive_video_player_icon (November 2014)
----------------------It was then discussed in more technical detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css/Archive_16#Improve_appearance_and_utility_of_embedded_video_player_objects
And **enabled at enwiki** with this code change (which remains the same, today) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&diff=634568364&oldid=634568266
```/* Move 'play' button of video player to bottom left corner */
.PopUpMediaTransform a .play-btn-large {
margin: 0;
top: auto;
right: auto;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}```
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**Version**: unspecifiedSee also: {T64369})
**Severity**: normal