Linking to a timestamp in a twitch broadcast

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Hi Guys,

I am trying everything to link to a timestamp in an embedded video, but nothing seems to work. Is there a possibility to do so? If yes could you please provide me with an example?

Thank you very much for your help!

kind regards, Alex

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Edit - misread, my apologies. Although I still don’t understand what you mean. If you are asking how to embed a video at a certain time, just right click on the player and click “Copy video URL at current time.” Example: http://www.twitch.tv/theloyalpatriot/v/7760996?t=48m42s. Otherwise, if you want to do this dynamically, I have no idea.

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hey, thanks for your answer anyway but what i mean is embedding the video as an object, for your video it would be:

…object… param name=“flashvars” value=“channel=theloyalpatriot&auto_play=false&start_volume=25&videoId=v7760996&device_id=c8527fe4d76d8f74”…

(you get this by clicking on “share” when you open a broadcast on the twitch page)

as you see there is no timestamp variable, and I would like to know if its possible to link to a certain time if you embed the broadcast as an object.

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Have you tried using the Twitch Player API to set the timestamp dynamically with JS?

Once loaded you could select the player by id and store it into a player variable and then
just call player.videoSeek(X); where X is a number of seconds you want to seek to.

Hope this helps :smile:

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thanks for the tip it actually works, the problem I have now is when to call the videoSeek function. I try to call it after the videoLoaded event but the videoLoaded event never fires, maybe im doing something wrong. I just see this three events that fire:

  • playerInit
  • videoLoading
  • videoPlaying

and I cant use any of them for my purposes :confused:

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videoLoaded definitely does fire when I try. You can try out this test code and watch the JavaScript console in your browser: https://gist.github.com/night/0d9a281bbf791be34afa

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thanks a lot! with your code it works as I wanted it to work, withe the videoLoaded firing.

Thank you very much for helping!

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