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[Aashish_Kumar]

Hey Roku Community,

I'm currently working on an application that involves controlling the Roku video player, and I'm encountering an issue with pausing the video. Here's a breakdown of the problem:

Issue Description: When the user presses the pause button, I'm attempting to set m.video.state to "paused" as per the Roku video player API. However, despite setting the state to "paused", the video does not pause as expected.

Steps Taken:

1. Reviewed Roku's official documentation for the video player API to ensure correct usage.
2. Verified code logic to ensure that m.video.state is being set correctly when the pause button is pressed.
3. Implemented console logs to track the value of m.video.state before and after attempting to pause the video.
4. Tested the application in real Roku device environments to replicate the issue

[renojim]

state is READ-ONLY and gives you the current state of the video node.  control is what you want to use and you want to set it to pause.

https://developer.roku.com/docs/references/scenegraph/media-playback-nodes/video.md

[Jman1]

That was a great response I came here to find out as well...Thanks

[Aashish_Kumar]

WE ARE ALREADY USING THIS -----

if m.video.state = "playing"

  setControlMode("pause")

  m.play.uri = "pkg:/images/play.png"

  m.video.control = "pause"

  m.video.state = "paused"

else if m.video.state = "paused"

  setControlMode("play")

  m.video.control = "resume"

  onStateChange()

  m.play.uri = "pkg:/images/pause.png"

end if

[RoyalPetBox]

This worked for me this week:

Function onKeyEvent(key as String, press as Boolean) as Boolean  'Maps back button to leave video

    if press

        if key = "back"  'If the back button is pressed

            if m.Video.visible

                returnToUIPage()

                return true

            end if         

        else

            if key = "play"

                  if m.Video.state = "playing"

                        m.Video.control = "pause"

                        return true

                    else

                        m.Video.control = "resume"

                        return true

                   end if

            end if

        end if

      return false

    end if

end Function

[renojim]

@Aashish_Kumar, first, stop setting the state to anything!  You can't set a READ-ONLY field.  Second, when it's playing, you're setting it to pause and when it's paused you're setting it to resume.  It's just going to bounce back and forth between playing and paused.  Without seeing the rest of the code, it's hard to say if that's part of your problem.

Add prints to your code.  It's the best way to see what's going on.  stop can also be utilized when things aren't happening as expected:

if m.video.state = "playing"
  print "playing"
  m.video.control = "pause"
  stop
  ... other code
else if m.video.state = "paused"
  print "paused"
  ... other code
end if