videojs currentTime()

[me-vlad]

VideoJS with flashls returns current chunk time from currentTime() (https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/master/docs/api/vjs.Player.md#currenttime-seconds-) instread of live stream playing time. How we can get playing time from flashls+videojs?

[mangui]

@me-vlad you would have to change this line https://github.com/mangui/video-js-swf/blob/master/src/com/videojs/providers/HLSProvider.as#L106 and replace it by _position = event.mediatime.position+event.mediatime+live_sliding_main;

[me-vlad]

@mangui , thanks, it works with _position = event.mediatime.position+event.mediatime.live_sliding_main;

May be it will be reasonable to include this fix to your repo?

[mangui]

the pb is that not all the timelines will be seekable if you do so. i.e. after some time, position 0 will not be seekable anymore after first live playlist sliding. the purpose of returning the media position relative to the live playlist is that you can still seek to every position.

[me-vlad]

I think we can check that stream is live from stream duration.

          /**
          * Add live_sliding_main to get videojs currentTime() function work
          * Live stream has _duration = Infinity
          */
          if(_duration = Infinity) {
            _position = event.mediatime.position+event.mediatime.live_sliding_main;
          } else {
            _position = event.mediatime.position;
          }

Another solution - boolean option in flashls config, something like 'hls_live': true

[mangui]

there is already a hls.type getter to know whether stream is live or vod. and anyway... live_sliding_main can only be non null for live streams.