According to doc:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Retrieving_video_information
player.getDuration():Number
If the currently playing video is a live event, the getDuration() function will return
the elapsed time since the live video stream began. Specifically, this is the amount of
time that the video has streamed without being reset or interrupted. In addition, this
duration is commonly longer than the actual event time since streaming may begin before
the event's start time.
When I test I get much longer time returned than comparing when I try hovering seekbar youtube and what it returns (for example when hovering youtube seekbar on some video returns 7 hours max, while my API getDuration returns 2000 hours for the same video). I guess its because:
In addition, this
duration is commonly longer than the actual event time since streaming may begin before
the event's start time.
Using API I can get this (example):
{
"actualStartTime": "2020-03-28T00:20:22Z",
"scheduledStartTime": "2020-03-28T00:19:07Z",
"concurrentViewers": "6125",
"activeLiveChatId": "Cg0KCzM2WW5WOVNUQnFjKicKGFVDaHMwcFNhRW9OTFY0bWV2QkZHYW9LQRILMzZZblY5U1RCcWM"
}
Can I calculate stream actual elapsed time using actualStartTime and scheduledStartTime and how? (so I can have same time as when hovering youtube seekbar)
Otherwise I dont have much use of getDuration for live stream.