How to get player instance for already initialized videos?

Question

How to get player instance for already initialized videos?

Briareos17 opened this issue 7 years ago · 7 comments

I have slider with video in some slides, I need to control video playback when slide goes active or goes out, How can I get Player instance to use play() stop() methods?

Answer 1 · 2018-05-23T04:39:40.000Z

It sounds like you're using some slideshow package to play YouTube videos? I would look at the documentation for your slideshow package. Without additional info, I can't help you.

Answer 2 · 2018-05-23T07:30:51.000Z

I'm using Slick but does not matter what I am using, because question about getting player instance from selected DOM element.
For example $('.player').player.play() or something like this.

Answer 3 · 2018-05-23T07:32:15.000Z

There's no way to get the player instance from the selected DOM element. I would change the code that creates the player so that it provides a way for you to get access to the yt-player instance.

Answer 4 · 2018-05-23T07:59:18.000Z

Thanks a lot, it would be great.

Answer 5 · 2018-05-23T08:19:32.000Z

@Briareos17 Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was suggesting that you should change the code in Slick, since I don't know how it works and it's not part of this project. Cheers.

Answer 6 · 2018-05-23T10:33:37.000Z

@feross Problem not in slick itself, Let's imagine that I handling event on slide change, so I get current slide DOM element, and i know that this element has player inside And I want to programmatically start playing video. So question is - how can I get YTPlayer instance from player element to trigger play()?

Sorry, but my English knowlage is no so good to give more detailed explanation.

Answer 7 · 2018-05-23T11:12:12.000Z

Sorry, we can't add support for what you're asking in this library. Find another approach to solve your problem.