html 5 video seek structure

Question

Can anyone explain me how bowsers seek html5 videos? On flash it uses start pamaterer to seek videos. Example: video.mp4?start=115.50 but on html5 videos (youtube videos) this is not working. So what parameter used to seek videos on html5?

Answer 1

You are looking for something that is called Media Fragments. Using this technique your URL could look something like this:

video.mp4#t=115.50

But this isn't fully supported. I think Chrome and Firefox have partial support this. As a workaround you can render a small JS inline script, which starts the video at your time.

Answer 2

You can jump to a specific time in seconds using JavaScript:

var video = document.getElementById('video');
video.currentTime = 18;

See MDN "HTMLMediaElement"

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