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[NewManLiving]

I have a client who wants a custom 2D interface, but a custom video player is not in the specs. So, I have incorporated the roVideoScreen into the application. Was surprised to see that the transition was unremarkable, but this could be that they use a dark background or maybe the compositor has something to do with it. The 2D springboard provides a resume play button that I had anticipated using roVideoScreen.Seek, keeping tract of expired seconds via SetPositionNotificationPeriod( 1 ). This works good and gives me the correct number of seconds to convert to milliseconds for seek. The only problem is that I cannot call Seek() before or after Show() and have it do anything other than start from the beginning of the video. I have had to place the seek call with a flag in isStreamStarted() and then it will work ok, although occasionally the progress bar will reset. Any suggestions ? I did notice other posts with similar problems with the audioplayer. I guess I'm spoiled - roVideoPlayer is my puppy. Does things right and gives me a duration time. . That's another thing -any way to get a duration time from the player itself ?? This took more time than a custom player that I could have just dropped in from my framework

[TheEndless]

For resuming video, you should use the PlayStart content metadata property. No need to call Seek(), unless you want to seek after video playback has already begun for some reason.

[NewManLiving]

Thanks - I knew you would have the answer. Now I remember reading it. Time for a meta-data review. Thanks. Any ideas on the duration time other than the xml field