Hi,

I am a newbie to embedded videos and have searched the web for a day and still can't find the reason
for the issue i am seeing. This forum seems like my best bet.

I have 3 .flv files on my local harddisk and have hacked up a webpage with javascript (swfobject.js) and
flash flayer (flvplayer.swf). Everything works fine and i can watch all 3 videos with one little glitch which
has become a headache. In one of the videos i can jump to any location in the video and start playing from
there. But with other 2 they start and play to end and i cannot jump to any location. The videos are 2hrs long.
So basically i cannot watch them in parts. I have to watch all of the video in one shot or have to start from the
beginning every time. I have tried almost all of the flashvars in vain.

How can i make the videos play from random locations?

Note: All three videos were mpg files and were encoded to flv files using 3 different encoders.

Thanks,
Rajesh

Hi Aran,

Thank you. I tried flvmdi but it gives error after 87% of processing, so looks like the flv file itself is bad.
The reason i moved to .flv file was because the .mpg files were about 2GB and none of the players would
play them. Converting them to .flv reduced the size to around 300-400MB and the flv players played them
well. I will look for a streaming solution, if you have any quick links to get me started on how streaming
solutions work and which ones to use, that will be very helpful.

Thanks,
Rajesh