Flash Movie Playback Help

[AdultInsider Cloner]

Hey...

Regarding the flash player I've set up, I can't seem to figure out why the user can't click anywhere on the timeline bar to jump to a part of the movie that isn't loaded yet.

I'm not sure if this is a player issue or a result of the way I encoded the movies, but regardless, I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.

FYI, I'm embedding the player and clips using SWFOject java script

Here is a sample of the embed script:

            <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
 
			<div id="player">Please install the Flash Plugin for your Browser if you see the Message</div>
 
			<script type="text/javascript">
			var so = new SWFObject('player.swf','mpl','368','270','9');
			so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
			so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
			so.addParam('flashvars','&duration=30&file=http://www.mysite.com/tour/tiffany_taylor_1.flv&image=http://www.mysite.com/tour/tiffany_taylor_2.jpg&controlbar=over&skin=http://www.mysite.com/tour/skin/snel/snel.swf');
			so.write('player');
			</script>

Any help would be appreciated... thanks.

[AdultInsider Cloner]

nevermind.... I figured it out... of course I would right after I post about it =p

[brandonstills]

Another thing to keep in mind is how the FLV's are encoded. Sometimes they don't have very much seek information in them and you can only jump around in really big intervals. You basically need to encode with more keyframes.

You're not going to be able to seek past what you've downloaded if it's a progressive streaming download. If you want to seek where it hasn't loaded you have to use a Flash streaming server (either from Flash, or red5 is a popular open source alternative).

[AdultInsider Cloner]

awesome... thanks