function get(url, type) {
      embed = '<object width="450" height="282"> <param name="movie" value="' + url;
      embed += '"></param> <embed src="' + url;
      embed += '"  type="' + type;
      embed += '" width="450" height="282">  </embed> </object>';
      //makePOSTRequest('youtube/watch/' + url + '/' + type);
      document.getElementById('yt_player').innerHTML = fixEmbeddedVideo(embed);
//document.getElementById('yt_player').innerHTML = 'hi';
   }

var loadEmbeddedVideo = function(id, embeddedCode) {
                                document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = fixEmbeddedVideo(embeddedCode);
                        }
var makeYTRequest = function(url, type, thumb) {
//  removeShowing();
//  document.getElementById(thumb).className='youtubethumb showing';
//  UpdateVoteLink(thumb);
                                embed = '<object width="450" height="282"> <param name="movie" value="' + url;
                                embed += '"></param> '
                                embed += '<param name="wmode" value ="transparent"> </param> <embed src="' + url;
                                embed += '"  type="' + type;
                                embed += '" width="450" height="282" wmode="transparent">  </embed> </object>';
                                return embed
                        }

var fixEmbeddedVideo = function(embedCode) {
                                if(embedCode && embedCode.toLowerCase().indexOf('classid') == -1) {
                                        var objPos = embedCode.toLowerCase().indexOf('object ') + 'object '.length;
                                        return embedCode.substr(0, objPos) + 'classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" ' + embedCode.substr(objPos);
                                } else {
                                        return embedCode;
                                }
                        }
function removeShowing() {
  vids = document.getElementById('youtubecontainer').childNodes;
  for (i=0;i<vids.length;i++) {
    if (vids[i].className=='youtubethumb showing') {
      vids[i].className = 'youtubethumb';
    }
  }
}

function UpdateVoteLink(vid) {
 // document.getElementById('linkvotehi').innerHTML = '<a href="/cgi/videovote?v=' + vid + '" class="lbOn">Vote for this video!</a>'; 
//  document.getElementById('linkvotelo').innerHTML = '<a href="/cgi/videovote?v=' + vid + '" class="lbOn">Vote for this video!</a>';
  document.getElementById('currentvid').value = 'http://www.procharger.com/videochallenge.shtml?v=' + vid;

  }

 function initialVideo()
  {
    var parameters = location.search.substring(1).split("&");
    vid = ''
    for (i=0; i<parameters.length; i++) {
      var temp = parameters[i].split("=");
      if (temp[0]=='v') {
        vid = temp[1];
        }
      }
    if (vid=='') {
      var randomnumber=Math.floor(Math.random()*10);
      var topten = new Array('ATsrkvpPpMM', 'fkE-yQ5Sp5Q', 'C2h_Dde6DqQ', 'YO6lo4u7dQE', '92gfpOCR18s', 'fgAxtUMrFPM', 'yWvurBJZM1Q', 'kTBBEBx_GSw', 'hR6gY1KrVaI', 'VXJC308A6cY');
      var vid = topten[randomnumber];
    }
    vurl = 'http://www.youtube.com/v/' + vid;
    loadEmbeddedVideo('yt_player', makeYTRequest(vurl, 'application/x-shockwave-flash', vid));

  }

function updateCurrentVidLink(vid) {
  tbox = document.getElementById('currentvid');
  vurl = 'http://www.procharger.com/videochallenge.shtml?v=' + vid;
  tbox.value = vurl
  }