getPosition

Description

Returns the current media element's playing position, in seconds.

For live contents, the returned position will not be re-scaled to correspond to a live timestamp. If you want that behavior, you can call getWallClockTime instead.

This is the only difference between the two. Generally, you can follow the following rule:

• if you want to use that current position to use it with the other APIs (like seekTo, getMinimumPosition, getMaximumPosition etc.) use getPosition - as this is the real position in the media.

• if you want to display the current position to the viewer/listener, use getWallClockTime instead - as it will be set in the proper scale for live contents to display the right live time.

Syntax

const position = player.getPosition();

• return value number: The current media element's position.

Example

const pos = player.getPosition();
console.log(`The video element's current position is: ${pos} second(s)`);