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Media tools addon: setting tags
Set tag based on actual time spent watching a video, not the position of the marker. So setting a tag after 90% completion of a 10 minute video can only be done after 9 minutes. Currently tag setting can easily be manipulated by moving the marker to just before 9 minutes.
Marcel Lamers shared this idea
I know what you mean. In most cases, the players only provide us with the viewer’s current time code.
We could track how long they spend on the page, but that means somebody could watch half the video, go make lunch, close the tab, and come back to finish it, and then the tracking would say they haven’t watched the whole video because they haven’t had the page open for the length of the video.
So I could see it becoming really difficult to set up and possibly frustrating for users.
Do you have the option with your video player to prevent seeking ahead or back?
I don’t. And you don’t get get the video length?
And I can see it becomes challenging. What if someone plays at 1.5x speed?
We can get the length. Though that has its own complications with pausing, playback speed, etc.
We could reliably detect if they click anything in the video area at all. And then you can say, “To complete this lesson, you must click Play and then watch the entire video from start to finish. If you click anything in the video window, or leave the page, you will need to restart the lesson”.
Could see that being useful in some heavily regulated industries but maybe too much?