Question

I’ve used the iframe function to embed videos, and I’m hiding/showing the content and videos through JavaScript.

I have one problem. When I press play on the first video, and then click on the next without stopping the first one, the first one just keeps on playing.

What can I do to stop the video in the “background”, when showing new content?

$(function(){
    $("#link1").click(show1);
});

function show1(){
    $("#pic1").fadeIn();
    $("#pic2").hide();
}

I’m just using this simple JavaScript function, where the “pic1” and “pic2” id is the id of the div, the video are embedded in.

I just can’t seem to make it work. I tried to put remove, but then you can’t see the video again if you want to.

Answer 1

This is an implementation of the YouTube player API, without loading additional files. To get this work, you have to suffix all of your <iframe>‘s src attribute with ?enablejsapi=1.

Example (I broke the code over a few lines for readability, you can safely omit the linebreaks):

<div id="pic3">
    <iframe width="640" height="390"
            src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xub4grFLbQM?enablejsapi=1"
            frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>

<div id="tS2" class="jThumbnailScroller">
.. Removed your code for readability....
    <a href="#vid3" id="link3"><img src="images/thumbs/player2.jpg" height="85"/></a>
    ....

JavaScript + jQuery code:

$(function() {
    /* elt: Optionally, a HTMLIFrameElement. This frame's video will be played,
     *       if possible. Other videos will be paused*/
    function playVideoAndPauseOthers(frame) {
        $('iframe[src*="http://www.youtube.com/embed/"]').each(function(i) {
            var func = this === frame ? 'playVideo' : 'pauseVideo';
            this.contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + func + '","args":""}', '*');
        });
    }
    $('#tS2 a[href^="#vid"]').click(function() {
        var frameId = /#vid(\d+)/.exec($(this).attr('href'));
        if (frameId !== null) {
            frameId = frameId[1]; // Get frameId
            playVideoAndPauseOthers($('#pic' + frameId + ' iframe')[0]);
        }
    });
});