How to know whether a video is played completly?

Question

I want to know whether the video has compltely played or not for this I have an idea that after end of video if the currenttime and duration of the video (using javascript) are same we can confirm it as video has played completely. But I cant frame it. Another thing is that are there any direct methods to known whether a video is played till end or not?

thanks in advance

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Answer 1

If you're using HTML5 < video > tag (let's suppose it has "myVideo" as ID) you can get/set its time with the command

var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo");
vid.currentTime = 5;
alert(vid.currentTime);

and video duration with

alert(vid.duration)

There's also a direct way to check if a video, by adding a Javascript listener.

document.getElementById('myVideo').addEventListener('ended',myHandler,false);
function myHandler(e) {
    if(!e){
        e = window.event;
    }
    alert("Ended."); //Replace this with the code you need to execute when video ends
}

Sources and examples: currentTime, duration.