Seeking error in OSMF

Question

I have a HTTP video player built using Adobe's OSMF and I am experiencing a strange behavior when trying to seek within a subclip.

The player requests data from the server using URL like "http://videoserver.com/video.flv" to get the full video, and appends "?begin=123456" to request a subclip starting at 123456 bytes offset.

Whenever I try to seek within a loaded subclip, the playhead just drops to the start of the subclip and the video plays from there. Although both mediaPlayer.canSeek() and mediaPlayer.canSeekTo(newtime) return true.

Any feedback is more than appreciated!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '12 at 13:40

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OSMF automatically seeks to nearest keyframe. Try encoding your video keyframe/sec. read more here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/osmf-media-player.html

answered Jan 04 '12 at 13:40

Breign

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I have little control over how the media is encoded. I'll try this, thanks for the tip! – rkardashov Jan 05 '12 at 05:04
Also, check that provided parameter ?begin expects time as offset value. It might also be that it expects bytes as offset value. – Breign Jan 06 '12 at 11:55
The offset is bytes, not seconds, I know this for sure =) – rkardashov Jan 07 '12 at 07:20

Seeking error in OSMF

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