Question

I’ve got some YouTube embedding code (I will paste only code which is causing the trouble for me and cut things which are not public):

console.log(ytplayer);
ytplayer.playVideo();

Console.log on Chrome and on FF shows me good objects with correct methods, and method playVideo() exists there. And it works for all other browsers I checked, but it doesn’t work on FF!? What is even more interesting, that when I play video using normal YouTube play button then I can use pauseVideo() method (and all the others: seeking, controlling volume), but I can’t use playVideo() method…

I use new way of embedding video:

ytplayer = new YT.Player(player, {
        height: height,
        width: width,
        videoId: videoid,
        allowfullscreen: 'true',
        playerVars: {
            controls: 0,
            showinfo: 0,
            wmode: 'opaque',
            autoplay: (autoplay ? 1 : 0)
        },
        events: {
            'onReady': function () {
                console.log('I am ready');
            }
        }
    });

Of course ‘I am ready’ is in console output. I have no idea what I do wrong and why only FF is not working… There is no JS error, and no clue… Hope someone had this problem before and got it resolved!:)

Answer 1

I was having a very similar issue and was struggling with an answer. My calls to playVideo() didn’t seem to work.

ORIGINAL:

$('#play_movie').click(function(){
    $('#video').show();
    if(player)
    {
        if(typeof player.playVideo == 'function')
        {
            player.playVideo();
        }
    }

The issue was that the player was not yet available – if I just gave it a bit of time to show up, then the call worked

$('#play_movie').click(function(){
    $('#video').show();
    if(player)
    {
        var fn = function(){ player.playVideo(); }
        setTimeout(fn, 1000);
    }

Don’t know if this is your exact issue, but I hope it helps someone