Time line scrubbing in Video object

Submitted by Scandy on Thu, 04/23/2020 - 15:55
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Hi,
we need to control time line scrubbing by script.
Can we suggest me which API to use?


At the moment we able to read the player's current position in following way:

var iframeH5P = document.getElementsByClassName('h5p-iframe')[0].contentWindow.H5P;
var iframeVideo = iframeH5P.instances[0].video;
current = iframeVideo.getCurrentTime();

Thank you.

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otacke

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 19:27

Hi Scandy!

First of all, you should not use the DOM to get into iframe and from there to the H5P object and then "guessing" the first instance element - pages could host more than one. The clean was is to use the alter_scripts (see dev docs) hook to add scripts to H5P.InteractiveVideo instances directly. You can use the same frame as for CoursePresentation used at https://github.com/h5p/h5p-course-presentation/issues/111#issuecomment-615875442.

There's no documented API, but you will find the source code of video handlers at https://github.com/h5p/h5p-video/tree/master/scripts where you can see what functions are available and do what.

Best,
Oliver