Recently I noticed this may not be such obvious, but if you need to know when user pauses video or resumes playback, just use:
- (void)playerView:(YTPlayerView *)playerView didChangeToState:(YTPlayerState)state;
and since there are constants like kYTPlayerStatePlaying or kYTPlayerStatePaused you can just do:
- (void)playerView:(YTPlayerView *)playerView didChangeToState:(YTPlayerState)state {
  switch (state) {
    case kYTPlayerStatePlaying:
      // do something here
      break;
    case kYTPlayerStatePaused:
      // do something else here
      break;
    default:
      break;
  }
}
but to make it work, do not forget to set proper delegate:
myPlayer.delegate = self;
and add YTPlayerViewDelegate in your header file for view controller:
@interface ViewController : UIViewController <YTPlayerViewDelegate>
There are also few other useful methods:
- (void)playerViewDidBecomeReady:(YTPlayerView *)playerView; - (void)playerView:(YTPlayerView *)playerView didChangeToQuality:(YTPlaybackQuality)quality; - (void)playerView:(YTPlayerView *)playerView receivedError:(YTPlayerError)error;
so there is pretty easy to handle most of player behavior.
