Deactivate/removing an iframe using javascript - javascript

I have more than 15 thumbnail images displayed(fetched from DB and looped) on the webpage. Onclick of an image, I have an overlay which plays the youtube video(iframe version).
The problem is that, on closing the overlay, the youtube video continues to play.
After going through the YT documentation, I figured out that there is no way to control the YTplayer inside an iframe. But, I have to use an iframe because embed and object tags make use of flash and flash is not supported in Mac(Mountain Lion)
So, I was thinking, if there is a way to deactivate iframe then the player may stop. display:none; does not help.
Please suggest.
Thanks in advance.

I tried this method and it works:
I fetch the iframe source by id using javascript and make the source blank.
<script>
function stopVideo(){
document.getElementById("iframeID").src= "";
}
</script>

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While trying to debug this problem I realised that the PlayerStatus (as described in IFrame Player API) is being changed in a wrong way:
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I had the same issue but I think I've found a solution for my problem after hours of trying... Adding allow="autoplay" to the iframe fixes it for me, it doesn't make total sense since sometimes it does work without adding this.
To clarify, I'm using video.js and videojs-youtube.js in an iframe, inside that iframe, if you play a Youtube video, another iframe is created inside the iframe. And I'm guessing that clicking on the video player to play Youtube video isn't considered user interacting with the inner iframe, because videojs-youtube programmatically tells youtube video to play in that inner iframe, and Chrome doesn't allow video inside an iframe to be played unless user has interacted with it.
This doesn't explain why 5 percent of the time it does play fine. Anyways, adding allow=autoplay to the outer iframe tag that contains the videojs player makes it work 100 percent of the time for me.

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I am using Firefox on Ubuntu Linux for testing. If I put the following link to an MP4 file in a page, the MP4 file plays in the browser window without any need for additional scripts or players:
<img src="/video/thumbnails/test.png" alt="" />
However, I want to be able to stay on the same page, and play the video in a popup window, with the rest of the screen darkened. I believe this effect is called a "lightbox".
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Following the instructions, I loaded the Javascript in the <head> of my web page, and then I added data-lightbox="image-1" to the link:
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I know there are Javascript lightbox effects designed for playing videos, but, since the browser can play videos anyway, what differentiates those Javascript libraries from the one I'm using?
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Okay so just an approach I had in mind at that time. It's left to you if you wanna try this out. But, if you want to avoid using third party scripts that you might have trouble tweaking here's simple approach. preferably, I'm going to use jquery code here just to make it look nice.
so lets say you want to have the video appear to pop up when the link is clicked. Why not just have our own div that contains a video element and then keep it hidden till we need it.
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<body>
<div id="vid-container" style="display:hidden;position:fixed; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
padding:40px; text-align:center;">
<video id="vid"/>
</div>
</body>
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So, basically what I'm intending to do is that when a person click's on a video link, we'll use some jquery to toggle the popup div. As you can see that in the video tag I've only specified the id. This is only because I'm intending to set the video src and the codec after a particular link is clicked via javascript ( and a little bit of jquery).
So suppose we have a link like so:
<a href="Link_URL" class="vid-link" ><image src="img_URL" class="vid-img"/></a>
And a person clicks on it, this is how I though you could handle it through the following script.
<script>
$(window).load(function(){
// first of all I'm manually setting the pop's width and height to fit the entire screen
$("#vid-container").css("width",window.innerWidth+"px");
$("#vid-container").css("height",window.innerHeight+"px");
$(".vid-link").bind("click", function(){
// first get the video url from the link href
var vid_url= $(this).attr("href");
// now grab hold of the video and set it up by plugging in the video url
var video= document.getElementById("vid");
video.type="video/.mp4";
video.src="+vid_url+";
video.controls=true;
video.autoplay=false;
// now toggle the popup visible
$("vid-container").fadeToggle("slow");
});// end of click handler
});// end of window.load event
</script>
We'll I think that should solve the bare necessities of your requirement. You could do alot more with it.
Hope this helps :)
Viva la HTML5!

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If you have a secure site (HTTPS) and you embed a youtube video with the code posted here,
iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/{$entity->getYoutubeVideoID()}" ...
... Firefox will block it, because that is "Mixed content." HTTP is unsecure, so it is not allowed to show.
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I'm working on a little side project.
I'm able to embed and display specified vine.co video's with
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Anyone know how I can append them to the body with autoplay disabled? This project is all client side, so I'll be limited to client-side languages. (ie Javascript/jQuery etc..)
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var iframe = document.getElementById(id);
iframe.contentWindow.postMessage('pause', '*');
Same construction for play, mute and unmute.
<iframe id='eFrame' src='http://vine.co/v/bJjdTLBnwx1/embed/simple' width='320' height='320' frameborder='0'></iframe>
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Try it.

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If you want to use the same target element for multiple SWF embeds, you'll need to re-create the target element before attempting your subsequent embed. Here's a link to a tutorial for this topic (scroll down to "Replacing a loaded SWF with another SWF").
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