Detecting such an interaction as

I'm going to embed some YouTube videos on my website.

My question is: Is it in the realm of possibility to, with javascript, detect when a visitor played the video? Perhaps some way to detect clicks within that area without eating the clicks?

For reference, the method by which such a video is embedded:

<object width="319" height="258"><param name="movie" 

value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oiTg_jGLV4A&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param 

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" 

value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oiTg_jGLV4A&hl=en_US&fs=1&" 

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" 

width="319" height="258"></embed></object>

Code (markup):

Thanks and interesting!

 

hi,
You can control whole youtube player with javascript using 'YouTube JavaScript Player API', take a look here for more details:

http://code.google.com/intl/pl/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html

 

Ooh I see there, that's quite cool. Thank you mariush