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You can embed a Google video in your webpage by including either an <embed> or an <object> tag in your HTML. You can grab the required code for embedding directly from the Google Video page.
One can see from Google's embedding HTML-snippet that there're some parameters that googleplayer.swf can interpret and use. I was wondering what other parameters are there, so I digged a little bit inside the Google video player.

A Google embedding code looks like this: <embed style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf..." allowscriptaccess="always" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" salign="TL" flashvars="playerMode=normal&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;docid=-671184977191327454&amp;showShareButtons=true" align="middle">

This one contains four parameters in the flashvars: playerMode, autoPlay, docid and showShareButtons.

Here's a list of all the flashvars that you can feed into the Google video player (I mean the version of the player that is available at this moment):

• _url
• adserver
• audioUrl
• autoPlay (true | false)
• bufferTime
• docId (the id of the video)
• eovMessage
• feed
• fscid
• height
• hl (the language of the interface, eg. "en")
• initialTime
• initialheight
• initialwidth
• loop
• mediaRss
• messagesUrl
• newPlayerMode ("normal" | "mini" | "fullscreen" | "embedded" | "clickToPlay" | "syndicated")
• newVideoUrl
• nostats
• playerMode ("normal" | "mini" | "fullscreen" | "embedded" | "clickToPlay" | "syndicated")
• pubhost
• pubid
• redirecturl
• seekTime
• showShareButtons (true | false)
• statsHost
• statsduration
• subtitle ("author" | "on" | "off")
• thumbnailUrl
• videoUrl
• width

Imho the most useful among all is the "playerMode" parameter. You can play with the others too, but from a user's point of view they will not make too much of a difference.