How to show default Playback Controls with the AS3 YouTube API? - actionscript-3

Question

I've read the YouTube API documentation to add the playback controls, but I'm not sure exactly where I'm supposed to specify these parameters.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters?playerVersion=AS3#controls
I've tried to append "&controls=1" to the Player's URL when I load it inside of a Loader object, but they still don't show up.
Are they supposed to be called from somewhere else? Or set on the player:Object? for example:
player.controls = 1;
No matter my efforts, none of my attempts worked.
Got any ideas?

Answer 1

That is the URL parameters on the embed, as you suspected. To disable controls you can use this object embed, which will use AS3:
<object width="853" height="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M7lc1UVf-VE?version=3&controls=0">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always">
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M7lc1UVf-VE?version=3&controls=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="853" height="480" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true">
</object>
The parameters are passed in the embed src tag. Note that the source parameters needs to be URL encoded, so the parameter separator is "&"
The alternative way is to use iframe embed
<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="360"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE?controls=0"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
A nice page to play around with is Youtube's demo page: https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_player_demo There you can get the full embed code for the parameters you've selected as well, but the object embed don't seem to generated there.
For embedding using javascript there is also the SWFObject library where you pass these parameters as flashVars:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference?hl=de#Embedding
Hope that helps,
Christian