getPlayerState

Description

Returns the “state” the player is currently in. Can be either one of those strings:

• "STOPPED": The player is idle. No content is loading nor is loaded.

• "LOADING": The player is loading a new content. Most APIs related to the current content are not yet available while the content is loading.

• "LOADED": The player has loaded the new content, it is now ready to play. From this point onward you can use APIs interacting with the current content such as seekTo or setAudioTrack.

• "PLAYING": The player is currently playing the content.

• "PAUSED": The player has paused.

• "ENDED": The player has reached the end of the current content.

• "BUFFERING": the player has reached the end of the buffer and is waiting for data to be appended.

• "FREEZING": The player cannot play the content despite having enough data, due to an unknown reason. In most of those cases, the RxPlayer will be able to continue playback by itself, after some time. As such, most FREEZING cases can be treated exactly like a BUFFERING state.

• "SEEKING": The player has reached the end of the buffer because a seek has been performed, new segments are being loaded.

• "RELOADING": The player needs to reload its current (for example, when switching the current video track). While this state is active, most API related to the currently playing content are not available. This state should be treated like the LOADING state.

As it is a central part of our API and can be difficult concept to understand, we have a special page of documentation on player states.

Syntax

const state = player.getPlayerState();

• return value string: The current state of the player.

Example

switch (player.getPlayerState()) {
  case "STOPPED":
    console.log("No content is/will be playing");
    break;
  case "LOADING":
    console.log("A new content is currently loading");
    break;
  case "LOADED":
    console.log("The new content is loaded and ready to be played");
    break;
  case "PLAYING":
    console.log("The player is currently playing");
    break;
  case "PAUSED":
    console.log("The player is currently paused");
    break;
  case "BUFFERING":
    console.log("The player is paused while buffering new data");
    break;
  case "FREEZING":
    console.log("The player is frozen");
    break;
  case "SEEKING":
    console.log("The player is still seeking, waiting for new data");
    break;
  case "ENDED":
    console.log("The player has reached the end of the content.");
    break;
  case "RELOADING":
    console.log("The player is currently reloading the content");
    break;
  default:
    console.log("This is impossible!");
    break;
}