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Is there a way to seek to a certain time in a video using JavaScript?

rated 0 times [ 28] [ 3] / answers: 1 / hits: 15780 / 13 Years ago, thu, december 29, 2011, 12:00:00

I have an iframe with a video, for example:

<iframe src=http://player.vimeo.com/video/18150336 width=500 height=281 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

The source won't always be vimeo, it can be YouTube, BrightCove, Hulu etc etc.

Is there a way to use jQuery/JavaScript to seek to a certain time in the video? For example, if I wanted to get to 3:41 inside of a video could I write code to automatically seek to that time w/o API access to the sites providing the video?

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answered 13 Years ago austynp · Accepted Answer

Sure. You can use VideoJS. You may have a hard time getting control of the iFrame as you put it. You can embed various video hosting sites' video with VideoJS, supposedly.

<script>

VideoJS.DOMReady(function() {

var player = VideoJS.setup(current_video);

player.play();

player.currentTime(666);

});

</script>

ref:

https://github.com/zencoder/video-js/blob/df41661f47201cfbc979b1fbba68fba3d67c06b0/dev/src/tech/youtube.js

http://videojs.com/

https://github.com/zencoder/video-js/blob/master/docs/api.md