Ah! So now, see how the question had a bigger answer than a link to the docs ;). Thanks everyone for your input.
On 8/16/07, Peter B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ [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
