You can add an event listener to the video element on the `timeupdate` event and pause the video when the videos' time is at/past the time you want to stop, but your idea does sound more convenient.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies if this has come up before, but I was wondering if it would be > possible to add simple parameters to the play() function. > > They would be > > play(start, end) > > Where start and end are the times in seconds. > > I know you can do > > video.currentTime = start ; video.play() > > But there's no real easy way to stop it to play a clip > > The media fragments URIs spec [1] handles this quite nicely by adding to > the URI > > #t=start,end > > But yet there seems to be no way to do this in JS, resorting to changing > location.hash and then doing a reload, which seems a bit of a kludge > > I may be missing something extremely obvious, if so, I'd love to know! > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/ >
