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LeBlaireau
LeBlaireau

Reputation: 17467

jwplayer - detecting the start

I am trying to detect a start click in jwplayer. I am embedding it via swfobject so the method is slightly different from the example in the api, http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/16024/listening-for-player-events

I have tried 

var flashvars = {
    'file':'xxx',
    'streamer':'xxxxxx',
'image':'xxxxx',
'plugins':'xxxxx',
'gapro.accountid':'xxxx',
'gapro.trackstarts':'xxxx',
'gapro.trackpercentage':'xxxx',
'gapro.tracktime':'xxxx',
'logo.file':'xxxxx',
'logo.link':'xxxx',
'logo.hide':'xxxx',
'logo.position':'xxxx'

};

jwplayer().onPlay(function() {alert('it has started'});

jwplayer() is not defined, how do I defined an object to detect the click?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10505

Answers (1)

mosney
mosney

Reputation: 71

The player is probably undefined because it hasn't been created yet. You should wrap your command in a callback from a DOM ready listener. Since you're using jQuery you can use its .ready() method (jQuery documentation):

$(document).ready(function(){
    jwplayer().onPlay(function() { alert('it has started'); });
});

Just a note about jwplayer onPlay(), it doesn't necessarily happen from a click event, it fires whenever the video is played, which could be by clicking play, or by programmatically playing the video. All it's telling you is that the video is playing. (Corrected the syntax error)

Upvotes: 7

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