HTML5 Video Tag in Chrome - Why is currentTime ignored when video downloaded from my webserver?

To be able to playback video from a specific time using the HTML5 video tag, try these fixes.

Your web server should be capable of serving the document using byte ranges. The Google Chrome web browser want this to work. If this is not worked out, then the seeking will be disabled and even if you set the currentTime, it will not work.

Test your web server, if it allows this −

curl --dump-header - -r0-0 http://theurl

Chandu yadav

Updated on: 25-Jun-2020

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