# Newbie...FLV totaltime dilemma, please help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-flv-totaltime-dilemma-please-help/215103>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-flv-totaltime-dilemma-please-help/215103 "2007-02-04T11:58:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![serazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@serazoo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/serazoo)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-flv-totaltime-dilemma-please-help/215103/1 "2007-02-04T11:58:30Z")

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Newbie here, Hello all :snug:

I’ve spent my free time for 2 weeks now trying to understand how to display elapsed time and total time of a flv. I’ve tried dozens of scripts, I just don’t get it :wasted: sorry…  
I’m turning to you guys for guidance 🙂

here it is:

I’m using Flash 8 pro with custom UI components, I will be using buttons that change the movie that will play in the same player…each button changes the contentpath in the player. this is working fine. Now, I would like to display elapsed time and totaltime of each movie…The script ? what? how ? where ?

You can download my FLA test here:  
[http://www.gdwebdesign.com/max/mat32\_help.zip](http://www.gdwebdesign.com/max/mat32_help.zip)

Another small thing: how can I make the (elapsed time/totaltime) to display right on top of my volume bar ?

In the zip there are 2 FLAs, the one that I would like for it to work,that has one button for now, and the other one that plays just 1 video automatically and has a script I found that displays “kind of” what I want, see for yourself !

please help  
🙂