vid:status

vid:status

Reports the current status of an active video. Note that after calling vid:movie-open or vid:movie-select the status will be set to “stopped”, while after calling vid:camera-open or vid:camera-select the status will be “playing”.

Example:

vid:status     ; => "inactive"

vid:movie-open "foobar.mp4"
vid:status      ; => "stopped"

vid:movie-start
vid:status       ; => "playing"