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Subject:    Re: Amirm, tricky media player 7 question for you...
From:       Amir Majidimehr <amirm () MICROSOFT ! COM>
Date:       2002-06-30 15:44:21
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Hello Timmy.

Unfortunately, the behavior that you are seeing is the way things work.
The underpinnings of each player is quite different and while we tried
to maintain compatibility, this is one area where they don't act the
same.  I am sorry about that.

As for Corona, I don't have a specific answer but if I were a betting
man, I would bet that it works like Version 7.X.

Amir
Microsoft 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timmy Ra [mailto:timmy_ra@YAHOO.COM]
> Subject: Amirm, tricky media player 7 question for you...
> 
> Hi Amirm,
> 
> I posted a similar question before that was unanswered but I learned
more
> about the problem myself.
> 
> The issue is that with media player 7 when you do a progressive
download
> of an indexed WMV8 video, "Seeking" is disabled until the entire file
is
> downloaded. With media player 6.4 ocx it was not disabled.
> 
> So basically you have to watch a progressive video from start to
finish,
> with no rewind etc if you miss something.
> 
> I found a workaround to trick media player 7. I can grab 1-40k from
the
> end of the wmv file. Set the partial wmv filesize to the full video
> filesize and then write the 1-40k chunk at the end of the file. I can
then
> seek a partial file with MP 7.
> 
> Can you tell me how media player 7 looks at the tail of the file to
enable
> seeking? Depending on the size of the video you need to grab more of
the
> tail before it is enabled. Also It is not working on win98 for me, may
be
> my problem.
> 
> And Please don't disable seeking on partial files in the Corona Codec.
I
> need flexability like AVI's not less and less features in a closed
> system...
> 
> Thanks.

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