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[idunno]

The customvideoplayer program has a function where when a video is loading it will give the percentage loaded, the PaintFramedCanvas () function.

Sub PaintFramedCanvas()
    list = []
    if m.progress < 100  'Video is currently buffering
        list.Push({
            Color: "#80000000"
            TargetRect: m.layout.left
        })
        list.Push({
            Text: "Loading..." + m.progress.tostr() + "%"
            TargetRect: m.layout.left
        })
    else  'Video is currently playing
        if m.paused
            list.Push({
                Color: "#80000000"
                TargetRect: m.layout.left
                CompositionMode: "Source"
            })
            list.Push({
                Text: "Paused"
                TargetRect: m.layout.left
            })
        else  'not paused
            list.Push({
                Color: "#00000000"
                TargetRect: m.layout.left
                CompositionMode: "Source"
            })
        end if
        list.Push({
            Text: "Current position: " + m.position.tostr() + " seconds"
            TargetRect: m.layout.bottom
            TextAttrs: { halign: "left", valign: "top", color: m.textcolor }
        })
    end if
    m.canvas.SetLayer(1, list)
End Sub

I would like to know how I could do something similar on a roscreen using drawtext to display the information on screen, or if there is an alternative.

[RokuJoel]

You absolutely can do it with roScreen and Drawtext. I'll take a look at porting CustomVideoPlayer to roScreen, I don't expect it to be too difficult, if I can do it quickly, I'll post it here for you.

- Joel