Flash video player streaming

Question

Is that possible to streaming a video from a certain time.

For an example i want to start the video from the time of 1.23 min but its always start from 0 only

time= something in millisecond;

I gave nsStream.seek(time) but even its start from 0 only.This is because the stream is not available for that time.

So can we start video streaming from mentioned timing is that possible.

I don't want to use FMS or Red5 for this.I know there is a possibility using server.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Yes, but in order to enable seeking you will need a server that supports streaming/psuedo-streaming. If you don't want to use your own dedicated media server (eg., FMS or Red5 ), and you don't plan on using a CDN (eg., bitgravity , limelight , etc), another option is to use a plugin for regular web servers (eg., Apache , lighttpd , nginx , etc) to enable psuedo-streaming.

For example, take a look at H264 Streaming Module .

Once you enable support for streaming on the server, you need to determine the start parameter the server uses. For the H264 Streaming Module the syntax is:

"http://your.server.com/video.mp4?starttime=83"

would begin the video from 1:23, assuming that 1) a keyframe exists there and 2) the encoding of the video itself is hinted.

Whether this adds out-of-the-box support for the NetStream seek() method, I can't say outright. I presume since some major Flash-based streaming players (eg, Flowplayer , JWPlayer ) support HTTP psuedo-streaming, either the seek() method does simply work or the code to support HTTP psuedo-streaming isn't that complicated. Both cited players are open source.

Either way, I think the scope of your question is adequately answered.