Pause youtube video, youtube api

Question

I'm trying to pause and play YouTube videos with the following code which is pretty much a copy from the Youtube API page:

// 2. This code loads the IFrame Player API code asynchronously.
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "http://www.youtube.com/player_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);

// 3. This function creates an <iframe> (and YouTube player)
//    after the API code downloads.
var player;
function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
    player = new YT.Player('player', {
        height: '315',
        width: '560',
        videoId: 'bpOR_HuHRNs',
    });
}

Here's a demo in jsFiddle

However, it's not working. Anyone have a idea how to do this?

Answer 1

Use player.playVideo(); (resume) and player.pauseVideo(); (pause) once the player is ready: http://jsfiddle.net/4WPmY/6/

function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
    player = new YT.Player('player', {
        height: '315',
        width: '560',
        videoId: 'bpOR_HuHRNs',
    });
    document.getElementById('resume').onclick = function() {
        player.playVideo();
    };
    document.getElementById('pause').onclick = function() {
        player.pauseVideo();
    };
}