Fortunately the Play button disappears when the video starts playing, so it has no effect on the frame rate! Or instead of a triangular Play button, you could

Fortunately the Play button disappears when the video starts playing, so it has no effect on the frame rate! Or instead of a triangular Play button, you could draw a big funny nose in some position and orientation, and the game would be to pause the video on a frame with somebody's face in it, with the nose in just the right spot. I don't know why the vlc project is ignoring my prs.