A friend of mine also a nairalander, had this issue of trying to emulate a live TV website.
he had 6 videos but he wanted all video to play like a playlist, now the main task is when video a is playing in it's 7th minute since you're are just coming in you should continue from that 7th minute, and when you refresh your browser the video should still continue from 7 minutes and some seconds upwards, and when another visitor comes in 4 minutes later that visitor should continue from 7 + 4 = 11 minutes, in other words all visitors should be watching the same video @ the same time and video time elapsed should be the same just like a live TV

JackOfAllTrades:
A friend of mine also a nairalander, had this issue of trying to emulate a live TV website.
he had 6 videos but he wanted all video to play like a playlist, now the main task is when video a is playing in it's 7th minute since you're are just coming in you should continue from that 7th minute, and when you refresh your browser the video should still continue from 7 minutes and some seconds upwards, and when another visitor comes in 4 minutes later that visitor should continue from 7 + 4 = 11 minutes, in other words all visitors should be watching the same video @ the same time and video time elapsed should be the same just like a live TV

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JackOfAllTrades:
A friend of mine also a nairalander, had this issue of trying to emulate a live TV website.
he had 6 videos but he wanted all video to play like a playlist, now the main task is when video a is playing in it's 7th minute since you're are just coming in you should continue from that 7th minute, and when you refresh your browser the video should still continue from 7 minutes and some seconds upwards, and when another visitor comes in 4 minutes later that visitor should continue from 7 + 4 = 11 minutes, in other words all visitors should be watching the same video @ the same time and video time elapsed should be the same just like a live TV

Sounds like standard Livestream (minus user controls), just using your friend's 6 videos as the stream. I've never had a case like this, but I'd suggest looking into how passive streaming services are implemented

I would check that out meanwhile more input are welcome @gurus in the house

An easier way to go about it is to have a fixed point of reference in time. Say for example you played the first video at 10.00 am UTC and a visitor comes in 10 minutes later a DOM ready callback should check the current time in the same time zone as the one used by the server as a reference point and skip that much ahead on the video or play the next one at the proper time if the first would have finished.

But this is a hack and I haven't done it before but I think it is possible to implement it this way.

bb6xt:
An easier way to go about it is to have a fixed point of reference in time. Say for example you played the first video at 10.00 am UTC and a visitor comes in 10 minutes later a DOM ready callback should check the current time in the same time zone as the one used by the server as a reference point and skip that much ahead on the video or play the next one at the proper time if the first would have finished.

But this is a hack and I haven't done it before but I think it is possible to implement it this way.

yea that makes sense but since JavaScript is a client language it best to let the server set the timezone and figure out what time the visitor came in and pass it to the JavaScript so the JavaScript times won't be different. yeah it's a hack

Wow I finally came up with an algorithm for this and its working perfectly, thanks guys for your inputs