How to embed YouTube Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0 ?

Youtube embed code help us to embed the youtube videos in our webapge. The youtube embed code is similar as follows.

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/me0zQaMqhPY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/me0zQaMqhPY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

If we embed the youtube embed code in our html page, normally we fails in the w3c validation. If we validate this page we can see that the error is because of the <embed> tag. The <embed> tag inserts a non-standard object or external content (typically non-HTML) into the document.

To remove the errors from the webapge we can remove the <embed> tag. The code is similar as follows.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/me0zQaMqhPY"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/me0zQaMqhPY"></object>
This will remove the w3 error message.

We can add the wmode by adding the following code

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

You can set the autoplay feature by adding the autoplay parameter in the url.
&autoplay=1
like as follows

data="http://www.youtube.com/v/me0zQaMqhPY&autoplay=1"