Is there a way to "seek" to a certain time in a video using JavaScript?
Solution 1
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/master/docs/api.md
Solution 2
That iframe will give you trouble, however in general you can do this without a library.
// get the video element
let video = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0]
// jump it to a specific time
video.currentTime = 10 // the number of seconds you want it to be at
Solution 3
Unless your website also has the host, protocol and port of http://player.vimeo.com
, you can not run any code on the iframe
's document
.
Sheehan Alam
iOS, Android and Mac Developer. i can divide by zero.
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Sheehan Alam almost 2 years
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?