I have a bunch of Carousels on a page, each with a mix of videos and images. I'd like to stop Youtube videos from playing when the user exits a video by clicking one of the carousel controls (left or right).
I'd like to be able to detect when the user clicks the controls, create a player based on the current video that was playing, and turn that video off. In the other examples I've seen, the players were declared in the onYoutubeIframeAPIReady function, but I thought it would be better not to dynamically create players for every video on the page. Right now, I'm getting the error
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<T> has no method 'stopVideo'
when I click the carousel controls. However, if I type
player.stopVideo();
in the Chrome javascript console, it works fine. What am I doing wrong?
<script>
var youtubeReady = false;
function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady(){
youtubeReady = true;
}
$('.carousel').on('slide', function(){
if(youtubeReady){
console.log("setting player");
var iframeID = $(this).find('.active').find('iframe').attr("id");
player = new YT.Player(iframeID);
player.stopVideo();
}
});
</script>
Example carousel:
<div class="mainPhoto carousel slide 523" id="carousel-523">
<div class="carousel-inner 523">
<div class="item active">
<div class="flex-video">
<a class="fancybox" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4pEqbs0ISaw?version=3&enablejsapi=1" rel="gallery 523" data-fancybox-type="iframe">
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4pEqbs0ISaw?version=3&enablejsapi=1" id="1188">
</iframe>
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="item">
<a class="fancybox" href="https://buildinprogress.s3.amazonaws.com/image/image_path/1189/2013-07-05_19.47.55.jpg" rel="gallery 523" data-fancybox-type="image">
<img alt="Preview_2013-07-05_19.47.55" id="1189" src="https://buildinprogress.s3.amazonaws.com/image/image_path/1189/preview_2013-07-05_19.47.55.jpg" width="100%">
</a>
</div>
</div>
<a class="carousel-control left" href="#carousel-523" data-slide="prev" style="display: none;">‹</a>
<a class="carousel-control right" href="#carousel-523" data-slide="next" style="display: none;">›</a>
</div>