How to seek to any time of an (unfinished) loading FLV?

[bonnieraymond]

I see YouTube can seek to any time of the video even when it's not fully loaded. How can we do this? Is this a server side or client side coding?
Thanks!

[bonnieraymond]

bump, anyone?

[creatify]

you need to use a streaming server to achieve that, like Flash Media Server or akaimi. That server true streaming media, so the request from flash can play media at any position, where as without a streaming server, your media files are progressively downloaded, ie, you can't play a portion of the media that hasn't downloaded fully yet.

[bonnieraymond]

thanks, so that needs server-side supporting.

[creatify]

yep