Right! Now I understand, thanks ;) The reasons why you can't do this have been comprehensively covered by others now, and you are right, it's a result of how the vidoe is encoded. If the video is 10 seconds long and it seeks to to end there must be no keyframes in the body of the video.
You still have a couple of possible options, depending on more specifics for your project: If you have access to the source video, and always know where you want to seek to, you can re-encode the video, making sure you have actual keyframes at the times you need to seek to. For most projects this isn't practical. Another option is to re-encode with regular (say every half second) keyframes. This gives you a more granular level of control. You could of course make *every* frame a keyframe, allowing you exact access to every frame's timecode, but this will make your FLV filesize unacceptably large. Or, if you don't need your seek to *exactly* the same timecode every time, you can seek to the keyframe before it, capture and display a bitmap of that frame using the BitmapData class, keep the video playing under the bitmap, using an interval to check the position of the video, stop it as close as possible to the desired time and remove the bitmap that was hiding the video... Pete _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
