How to check the play status?

[plutarcociceron]

Hi, is there a way how check if the player is paused or not?
Something like this?
$scope.$watch('vjsVideoIsPlaying', function(oldVal, newVal) {
if (oldVal) {
console.log('old: ', oldVal);
}
});

[ghost]

@plutarcociceron currently the way to do what you're looking for is to get a reference to the player once it is ready. In a future update the plan is to have an angular service handle this type of logic but you to check play status for videos something like the following could work:

var videos = {};
$scope.$on('vjsVideoReady', function (e, data) {
    videos[data.id] = data.player;

    videos[data.id].on('play', function (e) {
        console.log('video is playing:' + this.id());
    });
});

This stores all videos on a page in an object and adds a listener for play.

If at some later time you wanted to see if the a video with an id of example_vid was paused you could do the following:

if (videos['example_vid'].paused()) {
    console.log('video is paused');
}

Let me know if that makes sense or if you have suggestions on making this easier to deal with.