How can I get jCarousel to pause when a YouTube video is playing? - youtube

Question

I have a jCarousel (jquery) running for several youtube videos. The carousel works great, and even pauses when you hover on a slide- but it will resume if you move your cursor off the slide, even if the video is playing.
Videos are embedded using the YouTube Player API.
Plugin: http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/
This is the Carousel code I'm using:
<script type="text/javascript">
function mycarousel_initCallback(carousel, item, idx, state){
// Disable autoscrolling if the user clicks the prev or next button.
carousel.buttonNext.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
carousel.buttonPrev.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
// Pause autoscrolling if the user moves with the cursor over the clip.
$('#mycarousel').hover(function() {
carousel.stopAuto();
}, function() {
carousel.startAuto();
});
};
$(function() {
$('#mycarousel').jcarousel({
auto: 2,
wrap: 'both',
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback
});
});
</script>
The YouTube script:
<script>
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "http://www.youtube.com/player_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
var done = false;
var player;
function onYouTubePlayerAPIReady() {
player = new YT.Player('player', {
height: '505', // 535
width: '900',
videoId: 'DxZve0UV6UM',
playerVars: {
'autoplay': 0,
'controls': 0,
'modestbranding': 1,
'wmode': 'opaque'
},
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady,
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
}
});
}
function onPlayerReady(evt) {
player.setPlaybackQuality('hd720');
}
function onPlayerStateChange(evt) {
if (evt.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING && !done) {
done = true;
}
}
function stopVideo() {
player.stopVideo();
}
</script>
And the HTML...
<ul id="mycarousel" class="jcarousel-skin-tango">
<li>
<div id="player"></div>
</li>
<li>
<div id="player"></div>
</li>
</ul>
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Simply call carousel.startAuto() and carousel.stopAuto() when the player triggers an event:
function onPlayerStateChange(evt) {
if(evt.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING) {
global_carousel.stopAuto(); // Stop the carousel, if video is playing
} else {
global_carousel.startAuto(); // Otherwise, start it
}
}
Edit:
Make the variable carousel global inside mycarousel_initCallback:
var global_carousel;
function mycarousel_initCallback(carousel, item, idx, state) {
global_carousel = carousel;
//Other code
Then use that instead in the code before (as I've edited).