How to pass VideoElement currentTime into a controller of Angularjs

Question

How to pass VideoElement currentTime into a controller of Angularjs

I have a VideoElement with id="videoElement" where

$('#videoElement')[0].currentTime;

gives me time which a video is playing at.

On my controller I have a method

setTime(time)

where time is the value of the video elements currentTime value.

How can I pass this value to it?

javascript
angularjs

Answer 1

Found a way to do this (after Mathew's comment below as my solution initially was tying the controller to the view):

app.directive('currentVideoPlayTime', function () {
var linker = function (scope, element, attrs) {
    element.bind('timeupdate', function () {
        scope.currentPlayTime = element[0].currentTime;
    });
};

return {
    restrict:'A',
    link:linker
}

});