LoadVideoById () in a regular YouTube player (not colorless)

Question

I have a YouTube player on a webpage. I need to change the video that this player plays dynamically.

This is (relatively) easy with a YouTube player without a chronicle. It has a loadVideoById() method that works fine. The problem is that the player without chrome has no controls (play / pause, etc.). an ordinary YouTube player has it all, but it does not have the loadVideoById() method.

Is there a way to include controls of an ordinary player in a player without chrome or implement the loadVideoById() method in an ordinary player?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You cannot do this because calls in the “regular YouTube player” have the VideoID in the URL instead as a parameter:

• Regular video: http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer
• Chromeless: http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?enablejsapi=1

Instead, you can easily create your own function that modifies SWF Embbebed, I mean, let's say that you use swfobject for "Normal Player" and then createSWF function, you can dynamically replace the previous video for the actual one.

Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

You can do it...

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#change_the_playing_video

Answer 3

FYI also has a jQuery plugin that can do this for you, and provide you with a ton of controls!

http://tikku.com/jquery-youtube-tubeplayer-plugin

https://github.com/nirvanatikku/jQuery-TubePlayer-Plugin

Answer 4

It was easier for me to use loadVideoByUrl () as an alternative to loadVideoByIdl () instead of using createSWF, you do not need to contact swfobject this way, it is a built-in function ... just use the video ID to create a youtube swt URL like: url = "http://www.youtube.com/e/" + VIDEO_ID + "? Enablejsapi = 1 & version = 3" and send using the loadVideoByUrl () function as follows: player.loadVideoByUrl (url)

This way you don't have to bother with swfobject, it is spelled out here:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html#loadVideoById

"player.loadVideoByUrl (mediaContentUrl: String, startSeconds: Number): Void Loads and plays the specified video.

  * The mediaContentUrl must be a fully qualified YouTube player URL in the format http://www.youtube.com/e/VIDEO_ID. In YouTube Data API video feeds, the url attribute of the <media:content> tag contains a fully qualified player URL when the tag format attribute has a value of 5. * startSeconds accepts a float/integer and specifies the time from which the video should start playing. If startSeconds (number can be a float) is specified, the video will start from the closest keyframe to the specified time."