i use jPlayer and it's timing events to track a variety of statistics around audio that i play. i suspect it works just as well for video.
On Thursday, July 5, 2012 3:01:46 AM UTC-7, encompass wrote: > > There are usually javascript plugins that you can have handle any > function you like when the video ends... > Never used this but a quick google lead me to here... > http://jplayer.org/latest/developer-guide/#jPlayer-events > Notice it has event handling for when the video has ended. > BR, > Jason > > On 07/05/2012 12:12 PM, lucas wrote: > > hello one and all, > > > > i am good with server-side processing. very new to client-side java > > script stuff. i think this idea requires that; please give me your > > best advice. > > > > client loads a page that contains html5 video. user hits play on one > > of the videos on the page and is watching it. what is the best > > approach to writing a client-side script, java script, ajax, etc., > > that will report the ending time of the video watch by the user if the > > video played either to the end, was paused, or stopped by the user? > > you can see i want data on the server for how long the user is > > watching the video so that that data can be analyzed and such > > information sent back to the video producer for feedback and such. > > > > i am guessing the video player buttons would have to trigger their > > onclick events of the pause/stop buttons to run the client-side > > script, also the onend/oncompletion of the video, in which the script > > will then grab the final video time and report that back to the server > > through some predesigned communication data protocol exchange. that > > is all i can guess at this point. please help me write such a script > > and give direction. > > > > thank you in advance and have a great week. lucas > > >
