Hi, I got a question from a client - is it possible to have the time remaining / duration / length show either on the built in Seekbar, or a way to custom make a seekbar that does that? In this case, the student is watching an embedding video, if the video is 10 minutes long, is there a way to show after 2 minutes have passed and 8 remaining, etc? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Stephanie

Yes, several years later; how is that feature request coming? There really NEEDS to be a way to see the timeline time counter in the player UI, full stop. Its a huge weakness vs the competition. Not the least of which is for reviews. I automatically assumed that the review360 environment would automatically link reviewer comments and feedback to the exact place/time in the presentation that is active when the reviewer pauses it to make a comment.Since it doesn't do that, the player UI really needs to have a timestamp for the reviewer to make note of.Now, it would be great if storyline would have an option for a slide to 'lock its timeline' to a single placed video and - for that slide - the player scrubber controls would inherit the videos exact timeline. Other objects could be placed on the timeline but its length would be locked to the video's length. This would allow for the display of timeline time counter in the player UII don't see very many possible use cases where showing the videos own playback controls is any kind of useful - Changing the video's playback time position relative to the overall timeline position is a really bad idea as implimented. It only makes sense if the video is A: tied to the timeline as I described - in which case, why not just keep it hidden anyway.B: if the overall playhead is paused whenever a particular video on the stage is playing.

Hi Bruce, From that image it looks like the video controls - not the seekbar itself, which wouldn't indicate an actual time - but just overall length till completed. Just want to be clear for Stephanie about what the options are.

Hi Indrajeet, This is not a feature of Storyline currently - although you can share your thoughts on including this in the form of a feature request here.

Hi Will! Thank you for sharing how helpful this feature would be in Storyline 360! I've added your comments to our feature request report so that we can continue tracking this request. We'll keep you updated if this makes it on our feature roadmap. Here's more information on How We Manage Feature Requests.

You can enable the play bar in the video settings through one of the menus. This allows for play pause functionality and skip through the progress. It has time settings too. However you cannot customize it much more than those features.

How to show time/duration on seekbar | Articulate

37 Replies

TimShelton
Community Member
12 years ago
You can enable the play bar in the video settings through one of the menus. This allows for play pause functionality and skip through the progress. It has time settings too. However you cannot customize it much more than those features.
BruceHolliday
Community Member
12 years ago

Mmmm....

The built in player provides that functionality as Tim says. See image . The video exists on the timeline so you could manually put, start stop pause buttons and 1 minute markers on the stage that and show total length numbers. Or have we misunderstood ?
- DanielePiras
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  HI Bruce. How could I show "time palyed / total tieme" as in your example, in the standard player's seekbar of SL360 and both for video files or audio files (TTS audio files as well)?
  
  I attach the print scree of what I see on the player config in SL360. Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm really new to Articulate tools.
  - SAIKATPANDIT-61
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Is this issue is resolved now? I'm also struggling with the same. Our Client mandate this feature to be provided in all video based learning.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
12 years ago

Hi Bruce,

From that image it looks like the video controls - not the seekbar itself, which wouldn't indicate an actual time - but just overall length till completed. Just want to be clear for Stephanie about what the options are.
Darrens
Community Member
12 years ago
I was wondering the same thing as Stephanie so thanks for the response guys!
StephanieMahone
Community Member
12 years ago
Thanks, Ashley! I enabled the Show Video Controls for the video, not the seekbar, to show duration of the video.
SajnaThomas
Community Member
10 years ago
Is there a way to make the video seekbar read only?
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  10 years ago
  Hi Sajna
  
  you can put a shape over it and then set a fill with 100% transparency.
SajnaThomas
Community Member
10 years ago
Thank you so much Wendy. You made my day!
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  10 years ago
  Wow you're easy to please Sajna - glad to help.
SajnaThomas
Community Member
10 years ago
:)
Indrajeetmothe
Community Member
10 years ago

Hi All ,

Can u please help me. ? suppose when mouse over a seekbar of video then how to show thumbnail image of video and time ?? like you tube functionality? refer below image
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
10 years ago
Hi Indrajeet,

This is not a feature of Storyline currently - although you can share your thoughts on including this in the form of a feature request here.