How can I stop a video with Javascript in Youtube?
Situation: here, where I pressed some video.
Problem: I try to stop the video by Javascript in the console of Firebug:
player.stopVideo(playerid):Void [1] [2]
Question: Why does not the command above work?
[1] Source for the part "player.stopVideo():Void"
[2] I looked playerid with Firebug from the source.
Answer
Your video is requesting w/ the JSAPI enabled, so you are very close! All you need is a valid reference to the embedded player. Inspecting your page revealed that you are using the HTML DOM element id of "playerid" to identify your player.
Example:
<embed id="playerid" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="playerid" style="" src="http://www.youtube.com/apiplayerbeta?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=normalplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
To obtain a reference to the player and then stop the video use the following code:
var myPlayer = document.getElementById('playerid');
myPlayer.stopVideo();