Variable "time" in jPlayer does not seem possible. Is there a way to pass a variable?

Question

I am trying to pass in a variable for "time" in jPlayer's play function, but it never seems to work.

The method looks like this:

$(id).jPlayer( "play", [Number: time] )

The example given in the documentation is like this:

$("#jpId").jPlayer("play", 42); // Begins playing 42 seconds into the media.

In my implementation, it looks like this:

    var seconds = '300';
    var mp3 = 'my_mp3_path';
    console.log("seconds is: "+seconds);

        $("#jquery_jplayer_1").jPlayer({
            ready: function(event) {
                $(this).jPlayer("setMedia", {
                    mp3: mp3
                });
                $(this).jPlayer("play", seconds);
            },
            errorAlerts: true,
            swfPath: "/js",
            supplied: "mp3, oga",
            solution:"html,flash"
        });

The console shows "seconds is 300".

The mp3 variable works.

But for some reason, the time variable ("seconds") does not work at all! No matter what I enter, it always starts from zero (and does play the correct mp3). The "time" seems to be undefined, but I don't know how to define it. In all the documentation, the time variable is specified with a number, not a variable, so I'm not sure what I can change to make it work.. Is this possible?

Answer 1

The argument to jPlayer should be a number, not a stringified number:

var seconds = 300;