I have a youtube player embed done with API as instructed in documentation. Player works fine, so far good. Next for analytics, I want to trigger an analytics event when the video has just started playing (like at clip 1 of video).
From documentation, I am able to read YT.PlayerState.PLAYING === event.data
at onStateChange event. But this event is fired when user pauses and plays; skips to different clip and plays; video buffers and plays etc. I have to fire my analytics event ONLY when video just started to play at clip 1. Is there an event/way to check if video is playing from clip 1.
Note: I tried storing the previous states and then comparing. I dont feel it is a clean solution. Looking for a better way.
onStateChange
ifevent.data === 1
test for a variable that you have set. – StackSlave