Play YouTube video in Flexslider slide and pause slideshow

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Josh McGrath picture Josh McGrath · Dec 3, 2012 · Viewed 24.5k times · Source

I am using flexslider on a site and will be putting youtube videos in certain slides. However, I need the slider to stop animating while the video is playing, and resume when the video finishes. I understand that the developer has provided a solution to this exact problem using the vimeo API. Are there examples out there of an implementation using the youtube APIs? Is it possible? I am (obviously) not a javascript expert, and find that I learn best through examples/tutorials.

Answer

Jeff Posnick picture Jeff Posnick · Dec 6, 2012

There's an example at https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Getting_Started for embedding an iframe YouTube player on a page, and responding to specific events. I think you should be able to adapt that to meet your needs.

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