How to work out remaining time on a video

[UtahCode197]

I'm trying to make a countdown next to a video that will start when the video starts and countdown until the video ends. So far I've got:

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subtract duration of player "My Video" from currenttime of player "My Video" 

If this is right then all I need to know is how to get it onto a label text field

Thanks a lot!

[Simon]

Hi Rory,
Here's what I have:

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on playStarted
whatTime
end playStarted

on whatTime
   put (the currentTime of me/the timeScale of me) into tCurrent
   put (the duration of me/the timeScale of me) into totalSeconds
   put round(totalSeconds - tCurrent) into fld 1
   send whatTime to me in 1 second
end whatTime

All that in the script of the video player works.

Simon
Edit: Important edit

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on playStarted
whatTime
end playStarted

on whatTime
   put (the currentTime of me/the timeScale of me) into tCurrent
   put (the duration of me/the timeScale of me) into totalSeconds
   put round(totalSeconds - tCurrent) into fld 1
   if fld 1 <= 0 then exit whatTime
   send whatTime to me in 1 second
end whatTime

Have to stop that send

[Klaus]

Hi Rory,

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subtract duration of player "My Video" from currenttime of player "My Video" 

besides from what Simon said, you really should think this logics over!
If you really don't see what's wrong here, substitute "duration" and "currenttime" with real time values


Best

Klaus