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Hi

I have a wordpress site. We want a video in the background. I have done this like so:

<?php if(is_page('homepage')){ ?>
<div id="video_background_video_0" style="z-index: 0; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
            <iframe id="video_background_video_0_yt" style="position: absolute; top: -179px; left: 0px;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="1" title="YouTube video player" width="1349" height="759" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1CXFhQ33_xs?loop=0&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onscreencounselling.com"></iframe></div>

        <?php } ?>

and it works. It is here www.onscreencounselling.com

Only thing is we are keen to be able to control the video - is that possible. At the moment, since we have content on top of the video teh controls aren't clickable - which I guess isn't too surprising really -

any ideas please?

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yes thanks gentlemedia - I could do that I guess, just keen to use youtube because it normally solves so many of those pesky video problems.

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just keen to use youtube because it normally solves so many of those pesky video problems

I know what you're saying and 3 years ago that was a fact, but today the video tag is a pretty solid solution with greater control and your users don't have to wait untill finally that YouTube vid is loaded into that iFrame :)

And also remember that autostart is not supported on iDevices.

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