flv player control time

Question

Hi

I am using the flex flv player component and i want to be able to skip 5 seconds forward and backwards , at the moment from what i understand from the documents it is not acurate because the movie can only skip to keyframes sometimes making the skip 6 or 7 seconds. the same goes to cue points which the flv might miss the actual point if there is no keyframe there/ my question is there any other way to use the player in a more accurate manner ? since i see on the web players that can do these skipps

Thanks

Answer 1

No

The ability to seek into an FLV file is entirely dependent upon the key frame spacing. That is because a key frame can create an entire video image all by itself. (As opposed to intra-frames, which are dependent upon a) the previous key frame, and b) all inter-frames between it and the previous key frame.) That's just they way it works.

But maybe you have some influence over how the videos are encoded? Could you specify a minimum key frame spacing? E.g.: A key frame spacing of 50 for a 25fps video would be every 2s. Or even smaller?