Re: [YouTube-API] Problem: TypeError: '[]' is not a valid argument for 'Function.prototype.apply' (evaluating 'a.args')

Are you using mootools or some other javascript library which modifies
the prototypes of built-ins?

There have previously been some bugs in the iframe API which only show
themselves when you're doing something strange like that.

Tim Wintle

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 09:31 -0800, Colonel_Bo wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I am having trouble with the youtube iframe api.
> I am working on a site which is about distributing videos and
> therefore it must be possible to have multiple youtube videos on one
> page. when the page is loaded the user will see a custom image to
> click on (image is not from youtube). When the image is clicked, the
> image disappears and the video is loaded. That works so far. But the
> video should then start playing right away. Instead I see the youtube
> play icon in the middle of the video and an error message in the
> console. "TypeError: '[]' is not a valid argument for
> 'Function.prototype.apply' (evaluating 'a.args')"
>
> I narrowed down which line in my code causes this error:
> event.target.playVideo();
>
> when i write event.target.playVideo("test"); the error message says:
> "TypeError: '["test"]' is not a valid argument for
> 'Function.prototype.apply' (evaluating 'a.args')" so it must be that
> line.
>
> For testing, i checked the example code from
> http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/youtube/iframe_api_reference.html
> and that one works fine.
> I multiplied part of the example code so that there were two videos on
> one page and it worked. I can see two videos and they start playing
> right away.
>
> Of course I also tried using only one video on a page, but i still
> receive the error.
>
> What am i possibly doing wrong?
>

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