Open YouTube video in Fancybox jQuery

Question

Can I open YouTube video in Fancybox.

I have a list of YouTube videos links, for ex:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbqV8W96D0" class="more">Play</a>

and Fancybox :

$("a.more").fancybox({
                    'titleShow'     : false,
                    'transitionIn'  : 'elastic',
                    'transitionOut' : 'elastic'
        });

I don't want to create for each video new embed object.

Is there some plug in, or a other way to do that ?

Answer 1

THIS IS BROKEN, SEE EDIT

<script type="text/javascript">
$("a.more").fancybox({
                    'titleShow'     : false,
                    'transitionIn'  : 'elastic',
                    'transitionOut' : 'elastic',
            'href' : this.href.replace(new RegExp("watch\\?v=", "i"), 'v/'),
            'type'      : 'swf',
            'swf'       : {'wmode':'transparent','allowfullscreen':'true'}
        });
</script>

This way if the user javascript is enabled it opens a fancybox with the youtube embed video, if javascript is disabled it opens the video's youtube page. If you want you can add

target="_blank"

to each of your links, it won't validate on most doctypes, but it will open the link in a new window if fancybox doesn't pick it up.

EDIT

this, above, isn't referenced correctly, so the code won't find href under this. You have to call it like this:

$("a.more").click(function() {
    $.fancybox({
            'padding'       : 0,
            'autoScale'     : false,
            'transitionIn'  : 'none',
            'transitionOut' : 'none',
            'title'         : this.title,
            'width'     : 680,
            'height'        : 495,
            'href'          : this.href.replace(new RegExp("watch\\?v=", "i"), 'v/'),
            'type'          : 'swf',
            'swf'           : {
                 'wmode'        : 'transparent',
                'allowfullscreen'   : 'true'
            }
        });

    return false;
});

as covered at http://fancybox.net/blog #4, replicated above

Answer 2

I started by using the answers here, but modified it to use YouTube's new iframe embedding...

$('a.more').on('click', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    $.fancybox({
        'type' : 'iframe',
        // hide the related video suggestions and autoplay the video
        'href' : this.href.replace(new RegExp('watch\\?v=', 'i'), 'embed/') + '?rel=0&autoplay=1',
        'overlayShow' : true,
        'centerOnScroll' : true,
        'speedIn' : 100,
        'speedOut' : 50,
        'width' : 640,
        'height' : 480
    });
});

Answer 3

$("a.more").click(function() {
                 $.fancybox({
                  'padding'             : 0,
                  'autoScale'   : false,
                  'transitionIn'        : 'none',
                  'transitionOut'       : 'none',
                  'title'               : this.title,
                  'width'               : 680,
                  'height'              : 495,
                  'href'                : this.href.replace(new RegExp("watch\\?v=", "i"), 'v/'),
                  'type'                : 'swf',    // <--add a comma here
                  'swf'                 : {'allowfullscreen':'true'} // <-- flashvars here
                  });
                 return false;

            });