diff --git a/static/js/video_player.js b/static/js/video_player.js
index 1d5fd9b6e3..5b3b9377a9 100644
--- a/static/js/video_player.js
+++ b/static/js/video_player.js
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ function updateytplayerInfo() {
     }
     if (player_state == 1){
       update_captions(getCurrentTime());
-      handle = $('.ui-slider-handle', slider);
+      handle = $('.ui-slider-handle',  $('#slider'));
       handle.qtip('option', 'content.text', '' +  format_time(getCurrentTime()));
     }
        // updateHTML("videoduration", getDuration());
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ function stop() {
 
 function getPlayerState() {
     if (ytplayer) {
-	return ytplayer.getPlayerState();
+      return ytplayer.getPlayerState();
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/templates/video_init.js b/templates/video_init.js
index a94837b536..040e944a0c 100644
--- a/templates/video_init.js
+++ b/templates/video_init.js
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ var slider = $('#slider')
 .slider({
   range: "min", 
   slide: function(event,ui) {
-    var time = format_time(ui.value)
+    var slider_time = format_time(ui.value)
 
     seek_slide('slide',event.originalEvent,ui.value);
-    handle.qtip('option', 'content.text', '' + time);
+    handle.qtip('option', 'content.text', '' + slider_time);
   }, 
   stop:function(event,ui){seek_slide('stop',event.originalEvent,ui.value);}
 }),