How to detect time on a playing Flash video

I have a video playing on my page. I want to show and hide some div's when the video reaches a certain point. Lets say hide something on 10th second and show it again on 20th second.

I can easily do it in HTML5 with video tag and currentTime attribute but for IE I have to create the same functionality and I think with flash based videos (from YouTube or something like that).

Is there a way to detect the current time of a video playing on my website, embeded from YouTube, Metacafe or any other video sharing site?

I know I could detect it in flash and make it run some JavaScript function but I don't have flash nor have the skills to do it in AS3.

Is it possible to do it from JavaScript 开发者_如何学编程level or does any video sharing website out there provides this kind of functionality for their videos?

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You could look into using flowplayer, it exposes events for meta data and timing.

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You can use ExternalInterface to communicate between flash and js. So inside the flash app, when the video reaches the defined time, you can trigger a call to js function, doing whatever you need with the divs.

Since you will need to receive a stream and you need to detect a specific point in the video I thing you have read this inside flash.