Re: FLASH: start to play halfway through a movie

[John Dowdell]

Although this is theoretically possible, via Flash's API to JavaScript (in

browsers which support it), there's a significant practical problem: SWF

files stream in the order of play. To jump halfway through a movie, you'll

have to wait for the first half to load.


(This is how the Macromedia Flash Player can start displaying a

presentation before the entire file downloads: the SWF is written in order

of appearance, and so you receive the first elements first.)


If the movie is already entirely in the browser cache, then you can use

JavaScript in popular browsers other than IE/Mac... takes a bit of skill,

but it's certainly achievable.


In most situations you might want to break that single SWF out into

multiple movies, so you can quickly stream and display whichever part of

the presentation you'd prefer.


jd







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