How can I get the current playing time from an embedded video on a webpage?

How can I get the current playing time from an embedded video on a webpage? Is there simply an attribute that can be obtained using JavaScript from one of the common embedded video players? Or do I need to do a work-arou开发者_Python百科nd like make my own pause and play buttons and keep track of time manually while feeding the play/pause commands to the video using JavaScript? The latter is much more ugly in my opinion. Other solutions?

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The html5 video tag provides some decent support for this kind of thing.

The following page gives some decent ideas: http://www.broken-links.com/2009/10/06/building-html5-video-controls-with-javascript/