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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [November 10, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068 "2017-11-10T01:01:15Z")\
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**Author:**  [@adman17](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/adman17)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/1 "2017-11-10T01:01:15Z")
Is there a simple way to accomplish this. I generally use Joe’s HTML5 Video stack which works great. But as my topic suggests I’m looking for a way for longer clips to remember where a user left them if that same user come back to the clip at a later time?
Thanks for any thoughts.
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**Author:**  [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/2 "2017-11-10T15:59:48Z")
There are a couple ways you could approach this.
Can you be more specific as to how this will be used so that the best solution can be proposed?
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**Author:**  [@adman17](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/adman17)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/3 "2017-11-10T16:29:47Z")
Thanks Brandon. Pretty basic really. Building a site with thumbnail images that link to video files. Any navigation away from that video page and then back re-starts the clip. Was just hoping there was an easy way to have the last position in the clip remembered so it could be resumed.
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**Author:**  [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/4 "2017-11-10T21:47:58Z")
I’m on my phone at the moment, but to get the ball rolling I can describe the type of solution would imagine.
You can use JS to get the current time of the video. You can then post upper current time to a PHP script that will save it as a session variable.
When you load a page again you use the session variable to start the video.
Alternatively, you could use cookies instead of session-variables.
[https://www.w3schools.com/tags/av\_prop\_currenttime.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_prop_currenttime.asp)
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**Author:**  [@instacks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/instacks)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/5 "2017-11-10T22:35:33Z")
> [@BrandonCorlett](#):
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> You can use
… He asked for a simple way …
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**Author:**  [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/6 "2017-11-10T23:21:12Z")
Simple is relative and so far it is the simplest proposed solution. 😁
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**Author:**  [@adman17](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/adman17)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/7 "2017-11-11T01:37:14Z")
Thanks Guys,
Brandon, your solution is a bit above my pay grade though I’m certainly willing to take a whack at it after doing some research. I guess I was kind of hoping Joe Workman would just add a click box on the Stack that says “Resume” or “Start from Beginning”. I can hope…
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**Author:**  [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/8 "2017-11-11T15:22:26Z")
> [@adman17](#):
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> add a click box on the Stack that says “Resume” or “Start from Beginning”.
😉 that’s why I said I would “get the ball rolling” in hopes that if the blueprint is laid out then someone may pick it up and run with it.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/html5-video-that-remembers-where-a-user-left-off/17068/9 "2017-11-17T15:22:31Z")
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