Please fix this

(No comment was entered for this change.)

would be very usefull, please offer this!
thanks

Please add this feature. This could be very useful.

Yes please.

Please add this feature, as well as the ability to pull elapsed time. 

Adding even rudimentary features such as the ability to know when the movie has ended
as well as stop/start and elapsed time would be a great addition. Please help!

Add this please!!

This would be a rather helpful feature. Please add!

please add..

please add !!!

Extremely useful feature. Doesn't have to be implemented all-at-once: even basic
playback controls would be enough for start, then callback and all the other goodies
later.

I d love to have that - any tips on which timeframe it would be released? 
Thanks!

please please add!!!

yep, would love this!

Cant Wait, looking forward to this :)

I'd like to see a Play List script or features to allow this to be coded easily :->

control over the netstream will be greate!!

What I would like:
- Callbacks for video start/stop/pause/finish
- Set new video using the youtube code ( eg. -xEzGIuY7kw)

please add this!!

Please add this feature.

very needed feature

Would be very usefull!

This would be so useful, you really need to implement it!

I need it!

I need it!
Atleast - Callbacks for video start/stop/pause/finish.

This feature would be of great use to me also. please make it available soon.

I waiting for this feature aswell!!!!! A lot of developers will be really grateful!

yes please!

i need it too!

Yes please!

Same here, i need this.
Main priority is to get an event when the video has finished
(...in order to start another video)

yes, useful!

Video duration is know by the yt.duration method but it would be good to have a 
method to know the current time of the video clip itself.

to give a background the original post was put up on the GData api :

Hi, 

I am new to this forum and am not sure if my question is relevant 
here. 


We are looking at generating preview clips for unregistered users 
(guest) on our website. 


our videos are hosted on youtube and we are planning to use the api to 
fetch the requested videos and want to limit it to half minute or so. 


does the api have any methods to determine the lenght of the video to 
be played. 


thanks in advance, 
Ganesh

Any eta on this?

Oh man! This is what I have been trying to do for a week!
I have large videos that I will be posting. I want to have a link on my page that
will scrub to a specific time in that video. for Indexing. This is perfect.

Thanks,
Any ETA?

YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! :) 

to limit the the video duration, there is already kinda tool for that e.g.
SearchlesTV Remash (www.searchles.com), cool feature, I use that often.  

need to unload/load movies badly please... or some way to redirect the youtube player
to a new video... getting desperate here

Could really use notification of current time for annotation purposes...  I'm
applying for a grant related to this functionality, ETA would be greatly appreciated :-)

Thanks in advance!

A JS API would be a fantastic, much needed, and logical addition to the suite of
already available functionality YouTube's APIs provide.

I'm certainly looking forward to having access to these sorts of functions!

Yes, this would be definitive step-forward in flexibility and adding a lot of 
business values to our work. I am struggling to offer an on-line broadcast to a 
regional tv channel, splitting its programs into small pieces, but I am not able to 
detect when a click ends to jump to the following one. Please add this feature.

Without an API to control the YouTube player, I have to write a player of my own for
YT content, and I'd rather not get in a battle over that issue.  

i'd love to see it happed, as i'm making a site using youtube's movies! thanks!

definitely

this would be fantastic

Yah, please, tell me when done!

tell me too!

this would be nice

Add this please!!

This thead (http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-
gdata/browse_thread/thread/635d267b229e09d1) back in November 2007 said such a 
feature was going to be released soon, this post 
(http://apiblog.youtube.com/2008/02/important-info-that-could-affect-you.html) on 
the 11th of Febraru says they are working on it. Some clue of when this is likely to 
be done would be great!!!!!

cool !!!

pretty please!

Fix it as soon.

For me the most important feature will be callbacks when the video finishes, this way
you would be able to create your own non-stop "playlist" of videos. I really would
like to be notified when this is out.

This feature will change the "embed world" ;)

This feature is one of the most important for developers to create powerful apps with
youtube API, i would be able to create my own playlist but now the only way is
developing your own video player in flash, is there another way to do this with the
original embedded video player?

Thank you!

Just my 2 cents but I can already use these features and got a example ready. I'm
able to make playlists, stop/start/pause, change and mute the volume, repeat and
shuffle videos and more, all with JS.

vincent-
can you assign a function to run on video end?

Vincent, 

Please share with us your example.

bgriffiths, yes I can. I will show the example, within a few minutes, I will not
release the code until the player is launched and open for public, but I can already
show an example of the beta player. Stay tuned, I will upload it right now.

Read and view the example here: http://blog.cavebear.nl
Got a question, you can find my e-mail in the JS code, you can also post here or on
the blog. If this is not what your looking for then.. touche! :)

cuac :S

why did you deleted it ?

I've used a beta player which is currently not publicly available. I will continue
the development of my project privately, but will not release any examples or
self-written documentation until Google releases it into the wild. Please keep
yourself informed by reading their blog. (http://apiblog.youtube.com/)

PS: Love your usbwebserver btw, a WMCity user.

Thanks

I'm also working on a appy, and got it work. 
Maybe we are making the same project?
My script is almost ready.

Gr Leon

You got MSN/E-mail/AIM/Yahoo Messenger/Google Messenger or something a like?
I would love to see what you got and maybe share ideas.

You can contact me on: vincent |at| revelus.nl 

Vincent.vangemert are you talking about YouTube beta player or your own?

The YouTube beta player api, is he talking about

Yes please add it

JavaScript player API documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html

All the other cool stuff from this release:
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2008/03/something-to-write-home-about.html

Very nice!

We would also need a function for setting a new video. It is now already possible for
example by overwriting the SWF object code in a div with JS, but this is not good
practice. Why not also add a method setVideo(VIDEO_ID)? This would allow to change
the video withouth completly reloading the player every time a video needs to be changed.

This is awesome, thank you for releasing it this quick. One question though, some
links don't work on the API blog such as the chromeless player, which I really would
like to see.

(No comment was entered for this change.)

	0 bytes Download

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Oh I'm so excited, I will be releasing the first beta of my desktop player tomorrow,
which includes manageable playlists, shuffle and repeat functions and much more nifty
features. But first I'm gonna read the ToS, which seems a bit complicated.

@spacyspacy -- Please file a separate feature request for this functionality. In the meantime, use an iframe 
instead of overwriting the div.

@vincent.vangemert -- Sorry about that, they're fixed, chromeless:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_player_reference.html

is there the possibility of hide the toolbar video? I've seen it but using the
youtube video player beta.

Thank you¡

Hi campbell.sx, the chromeless player is a video player without the toolbar. Read about
it here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_player_reference.html

Hi, I tested the example of the new player and ok when tested from your site, i 
copied to my own directory try to test from my client without changes, and it could 
not find the ytplayer (and the function onYouTubePlayerReady never happened). is 
there any requirement to use it, let say to register or something additional ?, 
could you give an example not using swfobject.js.

Thanks.

I copied the same code to my server dir and it started working ... is it any 
constrain to execute from client ?..., an example without using swobject would be 
nice (to clarify the difference between ytplayer, myytplayer and playerapiid).

Thanks. 

it is working now from the server, without swobject. I dont know why it does not 
work when it is started from the client. less priority now.
thank you anyway.

Hi quenota -- You need to run the code from a webserver, otherwise it won't work.
You're probably better off not posting support questions in the comments of this
closed feature request :) Go to the forum: http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api

Thanks,

Steph

awesome! this is what I needed. But.. Im trying to seekTo(seconds) from the start. I
need to start the video at (N) seconds. I tried to put a seekTo(N) in the
onYouTubePlayerReady() function, but that did not work. It seems to be triggering the
function, because I can put an alert in say, play() and it fires. Just not seeking or
playing. Any Ideas?

Thanks!
-Abe

oops, moving to appropriate group =)

[English version forward]

He hecho una pequeña introducción a esta nueva funcionalidad de la API 
en mi blog, junto con una pequeña demo usando un botón externo 
para controlar simultánemanete la reproducción de dos vídeos. Está aquí:

<http://elornitorrincoenmascarado.blogspot.com/2008/03/api-para-el-reproductor-de-youtube.html>

O en version corta de tinyurl:

<http://tinyurl.com/2ccjhp>

[English]
I wrote a short introduction to this new funcionality of the YouTube API
on my blog, including a demo using a external button to play and pause two videos 
simlutaneoously. 

The post is here:

<http://elornitorrincoenmascarado.blogspot.com/2008/03/api-para-el-reproductor-de-youtube.html>

Or you can use the tinyurl version:

<http://tinyurl.com/2ccjhp>

The post is in spanish only, I've had no time to translate to English, sorry.

Moreover, I would be interested that those API to be also available directly from
Flash AS3.
Shall I create a new issue for such a request ?
thx