Make YouTube embed continue to play on layout change?

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

I also thought this had been covered before, but I don't think there's a solution I found:

Youtube Play Pause API function

I believe what is happening is this: you are using a persistent symbol which means the youtube element will be the same across scenes in the first scene, the code is successfully loading the video that you request when you change scenes, the player is already created since it is a persistent symbol. Thus the code that sets the video id isn’t called, since this is in the onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() handler, and it is already loaded. The youtube video is simply reloaded by virtue on how persisten…

Persistent symbols themselves are elements within the scene. When the element moves out of its parent div in preparation for moving into another parent, the browser does all sorts of cleanup that may make the video stop playing unfortunately.