User Guide

Chapter 3170

Description

RealMedia sprite or cast member property; allows you to get or set the current time of the

RealMedia stream, in milliseconds. If the RealMedia cast member is not playing, the value of this

property is 0, which is the default setting. This is a playback property, and it is not saved.

If the stream is playing when the

currentTime property is set or changed, a seek action takes

place, the stream rebuffers, and then playback resumes at the new time. If the stream is paused

(

#paused mediaStatus value) when currentTime is set or changed, the stream redraws the

frame at the new time, and it resumes playback if

pausedAtStart is set to FALSE. When the

stream is paused or stopped in the RealMedia viewer, mediaStatus is #paused. When the stream

is stopped by the Lingo

stop command, mediaStatus is #closed. This property has no effect if

the stream’s

mediaStatus value is #closed. When you set integer values, they are clipped to the

range from 0 to the duration of the stream.

Setting

currentTime is equivalent to invoking the seek command: x.seek(n) is the same as

x.currentTime = n. Changing currentTime or calling seek will require the stream to be

rebuffered.

Examples

The following examples show that the current time of the sprite 2 and the cast member Real is

15,534 milliseconds (15.534 seconds) from the beginning of the stream.

put sprite(2).currentTime

-- 15534

put member("Real").currentTime

-- 15534

The following examples cause playback to jump 20,000 milliseconds (20 seconds) into the stream

of sprite 2 and the cast member Real.

sprite(2).currentTime = 20000

member("Real").currentTime = 20000