Comments on: Yay for Jacob Seidelin to join me in accessihacking YouTube

By: Jacob Seidelin

Jacob Seidelin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:12:10 +0000

Of course, I agree. And I imagine it’s just a matter of time before there’s a real API available.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:30 +0000

Well, as you say it is ugly, and a hack. There is also quite a memory and processing overhead in intercepting the player constantly and calling the getCurrentTime() method. Of course it is a good solution for now, but I’d rather see this in the player API itself, natively than having that extra overhead.

By: Jacob Seidelin

Jacob Seidelin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:08:08 +0000

As long as you get the current time from the ytplayer itself, what’s the problem with polling? (other than it being a bit ugly..) If the video pauses for whatever reason, so does the time reported by ytplayer.getCurrentTime(), no?