I've done plenty of searching but can't find a olsution so far...
I have a Youtube playlist. I want to embed it on a website. But instead of always starting at the first video, I want it to start at either a random video, or a at least a specific video (which I can randomly select with server side code).
I have looked at the options for the iframe embed URL and can't see a parameter that allows me any control over this. Is it possible to do?
Otherwise I presume I would need to do something in JavaScript with the API. Can someone paste or point me to some example code that I could use to accomplish this as I haven't used the Youtube API before?
Generate a random number on your server and then use the index parameter in the url. Here's an example where the playlist will start on the 7th item by adding index=7.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL9C5815B418D1508E&index=7" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The other option is to use the js api, and call loadPlaylist and include the index argument.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference#loadPlaylist
**Edit: Since Google introduced YouTube's 3.0 API, the index parameter is now zero-based. Therefore, if we wanted to start at the 7th video, we'd modify the example above using &index=6 instead of &index=7.
(Link: https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Queueing_Functions_for_Playlists)
Based on the Greg answer I make this code, and works!
`
<?php
$min=1; $max=8; //the number of videos on your playlist
?>
<object width="746" height="413"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/CAAA1242CA3E37B4?version=3&hl=es_ES&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<?php
//in index the script randomize the numbre between $min $max
echo "
<embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/p/CAAA1242CA3E7B4?version=3&hl=es_ES&fs=1&index=".rand($min,$max)."\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"746\" height=\"413\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">
</embed>
";
?>
</object>
`
In my context I slightly changed the coding by Mauricio:
index=<?php print(rand(1,50)) ?>
(I put min and max in here directly)
You shoud check http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
or http://popcornjs.org/ .
here is an example using PopCornJS:
http://www.seuratt.net/rhi-popcorn/demos/videojs-playlist.html
