Can I start or seek to sub-second intervals with NetStream?

Question

I am working on a Flash Video player and am implementing the ability to start a video at x time within the span of an FLV (served from FMS). I am able to start it x seconds into a stream without any issue using

netStream.play(source, startTime);

but as far as I can tell, it only supports seconds. I am looking to be able to give a start time (or even a seek time if that is supported) in milliseconds, or really anything more precise than whole seconds.

Anyone know of any way to achieve this even by monkey patching the fl classes?

Thanks,

Doug

Answer 1

Well the seek will allow you to seek by a number of frames, but the spec says that it only seeks to the closes I-Frame in the FLV. That will become a problem with any method you use, because the I-Frames are the only ones that actually contain the whole picture frame (here's the gist of that).