TotalTime of a stream - Video Flash Player AS3 - actionscript-3

Question

Goodmorning,
I'm working on a video flash player to stream. What I want to do, is to display the total time of the stream and not the time since the user is watching the stream.
I have a problem now, is that when I pause then play the video, the current time restarts.
Do you have any ideas to fix my problem and to solve the other one? :)
**I'm using NetStream

Answer 1

Alright, for the first problem, what you want to do is to setup a function that receives the MetaData of the video and save that value somewhere.
First, when you create your NetStream Object, you need to add a Client to the NetStream that references the function onMetaData.
var ns:NetStream; //your NetStream Object
var client:Object = new Object(); //Create an Object that represents the client
client.onMetaData = onMetaData; //reference the function that catches the MetaData of the Video
ns.client = client; //assign our client Object to the client property of the NetStream
//Once MetaData is available, it'll call onMetaData with all of the information
function onMetaData(metaData:Object):void
{
duration = metaData.duration; //duration is the variable that is supposed to total length of the video
}
Now with the duration value you get the total play time of the movie that is currently playing with that NetStream Object.
You can solve your second problem in a number of ways, for example:
pause() and resume()
pause() and player('currentTime')
Simply keep a Boolean Variable called pause that keeps track if the video is currently playing or not.
var paused:Boolean = false; //assuming the video is currently playing
var currentTime:Number = 0;
var button:Button; //some kind of play/pause button
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onButtonClick);
function onButtonClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
if(paused)
{
paused = false;
ns.resume();
//ns.play(currentTime) //this also works
}
else
{
paused = true;
ns.pause();
currentTime = ns.time;
}
}

Answer 2

You have to extract the information from the meta data of the file.

Answer 3

Thank you for you answers :).
DodgerThud, I tried your solution concerning my second problem this morning. I tried your solution and I've got this : duration : NaN. If I understand well, my problem is that I don't have the metadata of the stream...
if(isLiveStream == false) {
if(title == preroll || Number(duree) <= 0) {
duration=infoObject.duration+timeOffset;
} else {
duration=Number(duree);
}
}
Those lines are on the onMetaData function.
Thank you for helping me.
Have a nice day.