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Seeking with Embedded Player and Hosted Videos

Hello,

I am attempting to post two videos that I have uploaded to BOTR. Both videos are on the same page and are contained within different Bootstrap tabs. I have created a custom player for them and have embedded the provided script into my page.

For each video I have a short list of "Chapter Markers" that have the seconds into the video the player should seek. I have bound the click event to the markers through jQuery and when I was hosting the player and video locally everything worked with the seek. However, now that I have switched to the embedded, I can not seem to get the seek attempts to work.

How should I use the player API and correctly reference each player instance when calling seek while using the embedded player with hosted video?

I understood the function was to work like so:
jwplayer(player_id).seek(120);

Right now the videos do play, the seek just doesn't work.

Thanks!

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Remco van Bree

JW Player Support Agent  
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Do you have a link to where you tried to set this up?

jwplayer(0) can be used to address the first player on the page, jwplayer(1) to control the second etc. etc. too.

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JW Player

User  
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Thank you very much for the reply. I tried the approach you suggested and it unfortunately did not work.

I dug around the embedded script that was provided and got the seek to work on flash enabled browsers. Here is what I found and the code that I am using, (the site is behind a client's password protected area so the link wont help)

My page has two of these in it:
bc.. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://content.bitsontherun.com/players/xxxxxxx1-yyyyyyy1.js"></script>


and
bc.. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://content.bitsontherun.com/players/xxxxxxx2-yyyyyyy2.js"></script>


In the two above embedded script references I found the lines:
bc.. try {
jwplayer.api.addPlayer(new jwplayer.api.PlayerAPI('botr_xxxxxxxx_yyyyyyyy_swf'));
} catch (err) { /* In case people use BOTR + JW Embedder. */ }



If I do:
bc.. jwplayer('botr_xxxxxxx1_yyyyyyy1_swf').seek(seconds);

or
bc.. jwplayer('botr_xxxxxxx2_yyyyyyy2_swf').seek(seconds);

Then everything works great, but only in Flash and not in HTML5.

In HTML5/non-flash, I get a null error when attempting to call the seek function.

Thank you again for any input you can provide.

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Remco van Bree

JW Player Support Agent  
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Right now the players do not have a JavaScript API, we expect to be able to release an update that allows you to upgrade BotR players to JW Player 6.3 with JavaScript API next week.

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JW Player

User  
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Congrats for JW Player 6, also javascript:self.parent.player.sendEvent('SEEK', xx) doesn't work with JW Player 6. Please have a look at http://presentationtube.net/watch/?v=0NzWTKLZ5cq. It works fine with Playr 5, but the upgraded version doesn't work.

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JeroenW

JW Player Support Agent  
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Thanks! And correct, our Flash-only JavaScript API using playerReady() does not work anymore with JW6.

Instead, you should use our new (and much more extensive) unified JavaScript API:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28850/using-the-javascript-api

Note a seeking function in this API looks like this:

jwplayer().seek(123);

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