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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:50:34+00:00

I have an iframe with a video, for example: <iframe src=http://player.vimeo.com/video/18150336 width=500 height=281 frameborder=0

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I have an iframe with a video, for example:

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/18150336" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

The source won’t always be vimeo, it can be YouTube, BrightCove, Hulu etc etc.

Is there a way to use jQuery/JavaScript to “seek” to a certain time in the video? For example, if I wanted to get to 3:41 inside of a video could I write code to automatically seek to that time w/o API access to the sites providing the video?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sure. You can use VideoJS. You may have a hard time getting control of the iFrame as you put it. You can embed various video hosting sites’ video with VideoJS, supposedly. 

    <script>
VideoJS.DOMReady(function() {
var player = VideoJS.setup("current_video");
player.play();
player.currentTime(666);
});
</script>

    ref:

    https://github.com/zencoder/video-js/blob/df41661f47201cfbc979b1fbba68fba3d67c06b0/dev/src/tech/youtube.js

    http://videojs.com/

    https://github.com/zencoder/video-js/blob/master/docs/api.md

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