Let's say our app is using the default video player on Safari.
When a user is playing a video and then attempts to move to a different position of the video using the seek bar, it seems like pause event is fired first, and then we'll get seeking and seeked events fired.
I am wondering if we can get the currentTime value prior to the seek. For instance, assuming that a user jumps from t = 7 to t = 42 using the seek bar, I want to get 7 as the currentTime value somehow.
I expected that we could get this value by accessing currentTime property inside the pause event handler that is invoked right after the seek like the following:
const video = document.querySelector('#myvideo');
video.addEventListener('pause', () => {
// I expected that the `video.currentTime` here has the "previous" position,
// but it already points to the new position
console.log(video.currentTime);
});
but unfortunately the currentValue was already updated to the new value at that point.
Is there any good way to achieve it?
(EDIT)
Caching currentTime manually doesn't help, because apparently a timeupdate event fires before a pause event. More specifically, taking the following code as an example, when a user attempts to jump to another position, cache and currentTime printed within the pause handler seem always identical.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video
id="myvideo"
width="640"
height="360"
controls
src="video.mp4"
></video>
</body>
<script>
const video = document.querySelector("#myvideo");
let cache = 0;
video.addEventListener("timeupdate", () => {
cache = video.currentTime;
});
video.addEventListener("pause", () => {
console.log({ cache, currentTime: video.currentTime });
});
</script>
</html>
I think @Kaiido means this when saying "Cache two values".
Code is untested (but looks better than being kept in comments section)
<script>
const video = document.querySelector("#myvideo");
let cache = 0;
let cache_prev = 0;
video.addEventListener("timeupdate", () => {
cache_prev = cache; //# save last known value
cache = video.currentTime; //# before updating to new currentTime
});
video.addEventListener("pause", () => {
console.log("cache_prev : " + cache_prev );
console.log("cache : " + cache );
console.log("currentTime : " + video.currentTime );
});
</script>