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December 14, 2009
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NetStream.time jumping ahead when buffering playlists

  • December 14, 2009
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I am streaming a playlist of multiple mp4 video files with flash 9 and FMS 3 and have been experiencing strange netStream.time values when the buffering is set for an extra long time on slow connections. When I have my buffer set to something like 60 seconds I'll start experiancing this problem:

the NetStream.time value will return 0 on progress events while buffering, but the moment the buffer is full, instead of reading 0,1,2 +++ it jumps to a really high value, in this case 53.5 seconds, and sticks there until the video (which seems to play correctly from the beginning) catches up to that time and then the netStream.time starts incrementing as it should.

Another relevant fact is that the time the netStream.time gets stuck to always corresponds to the end/begining point between two streams in the playlist. For whatever reason this usually seems to be the third video in the playlist. If the connection is relatively fast and the buffer is set to a smaller value, I usually don't see this issue.

Can anyone shed some light?

thanks,

bb

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    Asa_-_FMS
    Adobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    December 14, 2009

    This sounds like a bug in the Flash Player, though it involves FMS - may I suggest that you take a look in the public bugbase for the Flash Player and see if it's already present, or if not file it.

    http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

    Asa