title: seek to a point in html5 video
body: <p>Is it possible to seek to a particular point in <code>html5 video</code> displayed in a web page? I mean ,can I  input a particular time value (say <code>01:20:30:045</code> ) and have the player control (slider) move to that point and play from that point onwards?</p>
  
  <p>In older version of mozilla <code>vlcplugin</code> I think this is possible by <code>seek(seconds,is_relative)</code> method..but I would like to know if this is possible in html video.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I created the page with video and added javascript as below.When I click on the link ,it displays the time of click..but it doesn't increment the play location..but continues to play normally.</p>
  
  <p>Shouldn't the video play location get changed?</p>
  
  <p>html</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;video id="vid" width="640" height="360" controls&gt;
         &lt;source src="/myvid/test.mp4" type="video/mp4" /&gt; 
  &lt;/video&gt;
  &lt;a id="gettime" href="#"&gt;time&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;
  you clicked at:&lt;span id="showtime"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; 
  &lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>javascript</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){
      var player = $('#vid').get(0);
      $('#gettime').click(function(){
              if(player){
                  current_time=player.currentTime;
                  $('#showtime').html(current_time+" seconds");
                  player.currentTime=current_time+10;
              }
          });
  }
  );
  </code></pre>