preg_replace YouTube URL

PHP
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Hi All!

I have some troubles with dynamically displaying/embedding YouTube videos on my site. Namely, I have the YouTube URL in a mysql table, something like


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ1lrK72ldE&feature=popular

BUT : the video is not displaying at my site until I change the URL at the mysql table to :


http://www.youtube.com/v/NZ1lrK72ldE&feature=popular

like it would be if you want to EMBED it.
I tried to change the URL with :


$patterns = array();
$replacements = array();
$patterns[0] = '/watch?v=/';
$replacements[0] = 'v/';
$video_url = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $video_url);

but it haven’t changed the url. Can someone give a tip how should I solve this?
Thnx in advance!

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$video_url = str_replace("watch?v=", "v/", $video_url);