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You can use the . paused() method in javascript to check whether a video is playing or not. It will return true if the video is playing and return false if the video is not playing. You can get a video DOM element using its tag name or id.
<video>: The Video Embed element. The <video> HTML element embeds a media player which supports video playback into the document.
An 'HTML5: Video file not found' error indicates either the browser you are using doesn't support HTML5 or the webpage doesn't have the proper video codec. You may contact the website's developer to install HTML5 supporting codecs for all the three WebM, MP4, and OGG formats.
It seems to me like you could just check for !stream.paused.
My answer at How to tell if a <video> element is currently playing?:MediaElement does not have a property that tells about if its playing or not. But you could define a custom property for it.
Object.defineProperty(HTMLMediaElement.prototype, 'playing', {
get: function(){
return !!(this.currentTime > 0 && !this.paused && !this.ended && this.readyState > 2);
}
})
Now you can use it on video or audio elements like this:
if(document.querySelector('video').playing){
// Do anything you want to
}
Note : This answer was given in 2011. Please check the updated documentation on HTML5 video before proceeding.
If you just want to know whether the video is paused, use the flag stream.paused.
There is no property for video element for getting the playing status. But there is one event "playing" which will be triggered when it starts to play. Event "ended" is triggered when it stops playing.
So the solution is
This page will give you a better idea about video events. Play the video on this page and see how events are triggered.
http://www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html
jQuery(document).on('click', 'video', function(){
if (this.paused) {
this.play();
} else {
this.pause();
}
});
Add eventlisteners to your media element. Possible events that can be triggered are: Audio and video media events
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Html5 media events</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body >
<div id="output"></div>
<video id="myVideo" width="320" height="176" controls autoplay>
<source src="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/mov_bbb.ogg" type="video/ogg">
</video>
<script>
var media = document.getElementById('myVideo');
// Playing event
media.addEventListener("playing", function() {
$("#output").html("Playing event triggered");
});
// Pause event
media.addEventListener("pause", function() {
$("#output").html("Pause event triggered");
});
// Seeking event
media.addEventListener("seeking", function() {
$("#output").html("Seeking event triggered");
});
// Volume changed event
media.addEventListener("volumechange", function(e) {
$("#output").html("Volumechange event triggered");
});
</script>
</body>
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