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Windows 7 with Chromium. Using Windows Media Player plugin. Video plays smoothly without Flash, but I cannot seek to a different time point in the video. Is there another external plugin that will enable seeking?

proof of concept type stuff:

two new global variables: startingTime, startingLength. startingTime set to 0 and startingLength set to video length in writePlayer.

startingTime keeps track of the starting time of the current stream(ie the number after begin=); startingLength is the total length of the original video (ie starting at begin=0)

skip function, parameter amount in seconds

baseurl = "...begin="

var player = document.getElementById("no-flash-player");

var newpos = player.input.time + amount * 1000; // current location + amount in milliseconds

//when vlc loads the new url, the player.input.time is reset 0 and player.input.length is whats left of the video

startingTime = startingTime + newpos //update startingTime for current stream
if(startingTime < 0) startingTime = 0;
var id = player.playlist.add(baseurl + newpos);
player.playlist.playItem(id);

can also have a timer function that calculates pos every 1000ms, and updates a gui
var time = startingTime + player.inut.time;
var text = time + "/" + startingLength;

It might also be possible to try to seek and only jump if the player starts buffering. It might be tricky though, because I think seeking might be asynchronous, or go through other states before buffering in vlc/other players. Another option is to only seek for small jumps (~10s, so if it needs to buffer, it won't take long).

mplayer also has a javascript api (http://mplayerplug-in.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewv.... mplayer is able to keep track of the correct position and length by itself (if ...begin=20000, then it says it's 20 seconds into the video). getTime, getDuration, Open, and Play replace player.input.*.

I couldn't get mplayer working (although this url works: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/testing/t...) but vlc seems to work with a seek +1min link. A slider interface is also possible, but more work (maybe it's possible to borrow from youtube.com/html5)

http://pastebin.com/m47e30034

A simle implementation with a progress bar. I have only tested it with vlc (0.9.4) and midori (0.2.0). It doesn't work with firefox (3.0) with either vlc or mplayer (the player is not detected, even with long delays). The quicktime and wmp paths are also untested.

Actually totem can do seeking, but for some reason it doesn't work with the embedded totem player. But if you select "Open with Movie Player" it will play the video in the normal totem player and seeking should work with recent versions of totem and gstreamer. It works fine here with totem on Ubuntu 9.10, in fact seeking with totem works better than seeking with the normal flash player. It is blazingly fast.

I use the gecko-mediaplayer (package included in ubuntu) http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gecko-mediaplayer
It allows me to utilize the Nvidia VDPAU video decoder while watching youtube videos as an alternative to Adobes new flash player that only uses the GPU in windoze.

Would it be possible to implement seeking using it since it uses mplayer?