WP Oembed not passing through the “autoplay=1” variable

I’m having a problem here:

I am passing this through a custom field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6P1Q-UycHA&autoplay=1

(notice the autoplay=1)

But when I load the video on my theme using wp_oembed_get… it displays the video fine, but it does not listen to the autoplay=1 variable I am passing through.

I need the videos to play on the load of the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alain Fontaine

Those are not really arguments like for YouTube, more of arguments for WordPress itself.

One way to handle it would be to access your argument later inside of a filter and modify HTML output.

Pass in arguments array:

wp_oembed_get( 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=', array( 'autoplay' => 1 ) );

And filter:

add_filter('oembed_result','oembed_result', 10, 3);

function oembed_result($html, $url, $args) {

    // $args includes custom argument
    // modify $html as you need

    return $html;
}