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I've been trying to use Google's YT JS API to build a dynamic web page that plays Youtube videos back-to-back, i.e. a personal playlist. Here's the documentation for the API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference
Right now I am struggling to get the first video to automatically play. Here is the relevant code, which I'll explain below.
The problem is happening on the lines
When I first call playAll (by pushing a button), my browser's JavaScript console gives me the error
The next time I call the function, there are no errors and the video starts playing, like it should. It is therefore my presumption that playVideo is getting called before ytplayer has been initialized. But that seems weird because getElementById is supposed to finish executing before the next line is executed. I think that maybe ytplayer is not done initializing. But note that this is inside the callback function for the creation of the video player object and inside an if statement that executes only if the video player was successfully created.
The lines
should have created the video player with an id of "myytplayer" by the time we've reached the problem lines.
Any ideas?
Right now I am struggling to get the first video to automatically play. Here is the relevant code, which I'll explain below.
Code:
this.playAll = function()
{
var vidtexts = document.getElementsByClassName('vidtxt');
for (var i = 0, j = vidtexts.length; i < j; ++i)
{
var thisid = vidtexts[i].value;
if (thisid.length > 0)
{
var thisurl = "[PLAIN]http://www.youtube.com/v/"[/PLAIN] + thisid + "?enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer&version=3";
var atts = { id: "myytplayer" };
var params = { allowScriptAccess: "always" };
swfobject.embedSWF(thisurl, "playerdiv", "425", "356", "8", null, null, params, atts, this.playVid);
}
}
}
this.playVid = function(e)
{
/* Callback function for swfobject.embedSWF(...), to play the video
if the flash player was loaded successfully. */
if (e.success)
{
/* https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference#GettingReference */
ytplayer = document.getElementById("myytplayer");
ytplayer.playVideo();
}
}The problem is happening on the lines
Code:
ytplayer = document.getElementById("myytplayer");
ytplayer.playVideo();When I first call playAll (by pushing a button), my browser's JavaScript console gives me the error
Code:
undefined is not a functionThe next time I call the function, there are no errors and the video starts playing, like it should. It is therefore my presumption that playVideo is getting called before ytplayer has been initialized. But that seems weird because getElementById is supposed to finish executing before the next line is executed. I think that maybe ytplayer is not done initializing. But note that this is inside the callback function for the creation of the video player object and inside an if statement that executes only if the video player was successfully created.
The lines
Code:
var atts = { id: "myytplayer" };
var params = { allowScriptAccess: "always" };
swfobject.embedSWF(thisurl, "playerdiv", "425", "356", "8", null, null, params, atts, this.playVid);should have created the video player with an id of "myytplayer" by the time we've reached the problem lines.
Any ideas?
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