Stop embedded youtube iframe?

You may want to review through the Youtube JavaScript API Reference docs.

When you embed your video(s) on the page, you will need to pass this parameter:

http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID?version=3&enablejsapi=1

If you want a stop all videos button, you can setup a javascript routine to loop through your videos and stop them:

player.stopVideo()

This does involve keeping track of all the page IDs for each video on the page. Even simpler might be to make a class and then use jQuery.each.

$('#myStopClickButton').click(function(){
  $('.myVideoClass').each(function(){
    $(this).stopVideo();
  });
});

If anyone is still looking for the answer, i've solved it like so:

$("#photos").on("hide",function(){
    var leg=$('.videoPlayer').attr("src");
    $('.videoPlayer').attr("src",leg);
});

Where #photos is the ID of the modal and .videoPlayer is the class of the iframe. Basically it refreshes the src attribute (and stops playing the video). So,

    $('#myStopClickButton').click(function(){
      $('.yvideo').each(function(){
        var el_src = $(this).attr("src");
        $(this).attr("src",el_src);
      });
    });

should do the trick.

Unfortunately these API's evolve very fast. As of May 2015, the proposed solutions don't work anymore, as the player object has no stopVideo method.

A reliable solution is to be found in this page (1) and it works with an:

<iframe id="youtube_player" class="yt_player_iframe" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aHUBlv5_K8Y?enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer"  allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" frameborder="0"></iframe>

and the following JS/jQuery code:

$('.yt_player_iframe').each(function(){
  this.contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"stopVideo","args":""}', '*')
});

Here is a codepen, it worked for me.

I was searching for the simplest solution for embedding the YT video within an iframe, and I feel this is it.

What I needed was to have the video appear in a modal window and stop playing when it was closed

Here is the code : (from: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/GBjqQr)

    <div><a href="#" class="play-video">Play Video</a></div>
    <div><a href="#" class="stop-video">Stop Video</a></div>
    <div><a href="#" class="pause-video">Pause Video</a></div>

    <iframe class="youtube-video" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/glEiPXAYE-U?enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

$('a.play-video').click(function(){
    $('.youtube-video')[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + 'playVideo' + '","args":""}', '*');
});

$('a.stop-video').click(function(){
    $('.youtube-video')[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + 'stopVideo' + '","args":""}', '*');
});

$('a.pause-video').click(function(){
    $('.youtube-video')[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + 'pauseVideo' + '","args":""}', '*');
});

Additionally, if you want it to autoplay in a DOM-object that is not yet visible, such as a modal window, if I used the same button to play the video that I was using to show the modal it would not work so I used THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EzAGZCPSOfg?autoplay=1&enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer

Note: The ?autoplay=1& where it's placed and the use of the '&' before the next property to allow the pause to continue to work.