Display time for streaming movies?

Question

I manage a site containing many long (1-3hr) streaming movies. We have them set up to view in web pages via the QT plugin. Works great.
Users have become used to the YouTube appearance of online videos, which display the current and total runtime of the video. With our long movies this would be very handy.
Is there any way to mimic this functionality in Quicktime's plugin? I know I can force movies to load in Quicktime Player, which displays current but not total time, but I'd rather keep them in a browser.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks for all your work and code.
But I just tried it and do not see the display.
Did I assemble your code correctly?
<script>
<!--
var count=11;
var timecodedivlayer;
function countdown(){
changelayer_content(count);
if (count>0){
Id = window.setTimeout("countdown()",1000);
else{
window.close(); //I don't think this does anything, leftover from a prior script. Oops.
function hhmmss (timeinseconds) {
hh = Math.floor(timeinseconds/(60*60));
mm = Math.floor( (timeinseconds - (hh(6060)))/60)
if (mm < 10) {mm = "0" + mm;}
ss = timeinseconds - (hh(6060) + mm*60);
if (ss < 10) {ss = "0" + ss;}
return hh + ":" + mm + ":" + ss;
function changelayer_content(counter){
if (document.movie1.GetPluginStatus() == "Complete")
curtime = hhmmss(Math.round(document.movie1.GetTime() / document.movie1.GetTimeScale()));
tottime = hhmmss(Math.round(document.movie1.GetDuration() / document.movie1.GetTimeScale()));
msgstring = curtime + " of " + tottime;
else
msgstring = "Loading...";
if(document.layers){
//thisbrowser="NN4";
timecodedivlayer = document.layers[0];
timecodedivlayer.document.open();
timecodedivlayer.document.write(msgstring);
timecodedivlayer.document.close();
if(document.all){
//thisbrowser="ie"
timecodedivlayer = document.all["timecodediv"];
timecodedivlayer.innerHTML=msgstring;
if(!document.all && document.getElementById){
//thisbrowser="NN6";
timecodedivlayer = document.getElementById("timecodediv");
timecodedivlayer.innerHTML =msgstring;
// -->
</script>
My pages all use the javascript method and I just pasted your code below that code.
Did I miss something? Does it work for "progressive" downloaded QuickTime content or is it meant for only files served via "streaming servers"?
BTW. I got a chuckle when I clicked on the "movie" you used as an example.
Nice pop-up and a brain F*rt for me.
Ignore any "br" code above. It is caused by these Discussions pages.