How do I seek to a specific point in a mp4 (locally)

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Hi,I have an air destop project that displays local mp4 videos.But Sometimes I want the video to play from a specific position for example 5seconds in.Im just not getting anywhere trying to manipulate the the netstream.I want to start an mp4 playing from a specific position.so for example ive tried this...stream.play(videoURL);stream.pause();stream.seek(30);stream.resume();This doesnt work though the playback just starts from 0 seconds like it normally would.Any ideas?Thanks

sinious · Answer

You can just specify the seconds to start at with play(),

e.g.:

stream.play('mp4:videos/myvideo.mp4',30);

Playing locally you still do need to make sure the file is loaded to that second before you seek to it. Seeking progressive without a media server will also only seek to keyframes. It's an expensive operation.

In normal seek mode, you cannot start the video at a point between the keyframes.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.html#seek()

stream.play(videoURL);

stream.pause();

stream.seek(30);

stream.resume();