How To Get Video Play Paused Status With Vimeo Api?

I was just wondering how I can detect if the video is playing or paused (or even loaded/ buffering) on the Vimeo API (http://player.vimeo.com/playground) it's a lot different to Yo

Solution 1:

Check the richest example of using vimeo Player Javascript API. It uses froogaloop library to communicate vimeo JS API. Don't forget to add id and parameters to the iframe element.

<iframeid="player_1"src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/7100569?api=1&amp;player_id=player_1"width="540"height="304"frameborder="0"webkitallowfullscreen></iframe>

Solution 2:

The Vimeo Player JavaScript API provides the following method:

paused():Boolean

This return returns false if the video is playing, true otherwise.

Full details here: http://developer.vimeo.com/player/js-api

Solution 3:

Looks like their documenentation slightly changed since last answer. After you get the instance of the player you can check the playing/pause state by:

player.getPaused().then(function(paused) {
    if(paused){
        player.play();
    }else{
       player.pause();
    }

});

From vimeo player api docs

Solution 4:

Turns out you have to pass a callback as a second param to .api(), which will receive true / false based as the pause state of the player:

player.api('paused', function(paused) {
    // paused will be trueorfalse here
});

https://github.com/vimeo/player-api/issues/31

Solution 5:

var onPlay = function(data) {
              console.log("play")
            };

            var onPause = function(data) {
              console.log("pause")
            };

            player.addEvent('play', onPlay);
            player.addEvent('pause', onPause);