getPlayerState method

Description

Returns a string describing the current “state” of playback.

The various values that this state can be set to are:

• "Stopped": The last content is stopped or no content was ever loaded.

• "Loading": Set synchronously when the load method is called, to indicate that a new content is being loaded.

• "Loaded": the last content loaded with load is now ready to play.

• "Error": the last content loaded with load has been interrupted due to an error. An "error" event should also have been triggered. You can also know which error happened by calling the getError method.

You can be directly notified of when this state change by listening to the playerStateChange event.

Syntax

const playerState = player.getPlayerState();

• return value:

string: String describing the playback state the player is in.