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WMV export issue—player always jumps to beginning
When I use the Adobe Media encoder and the WMV 9 settings, the resulting file will not allow me to jump to any random point in th video. If you try to click the progress slider to a new point in the video, it always returns to the beginning of the clip.
This is annoying because I am trying to send a 10min clip sample to a client so that they can recommend changes at specific points, but everytime they try to go to a specific point, the clip jumps back to beginning.
Is there a hidden setting somewhere deep in the encoder that I am unaware of?
Thanks
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4 Replies
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Randy, it doesn’t do that on my PC. How are you encoding, and how are you viewing the WM9 file.
Steven
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is this playing off a streaming server, off a web page, or playing locally? We have people download windows media all the time and it is random access. Streaming may not be random access, and html servers do progressive download, so like Flash, it has to download completely before you can randomly access it.
Not sure this helps you, but the encoder does not sound like the issue.Mike
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if you want to have the users go to specific points, you might try a Quicktime file. You can set cue points within Quicktime Pro. It’s been a while since we did this, but XML has something to do with it.
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QT files are way to large compared to wmv and wmv will do this just fine. Have your client save the file to their computer, then they can easily jump around. Hard to do if you just send a link to the file in an email, put the link in a web page so they can choose save target as…Or let them dig it out of their internet temporary files but that might be a bit complex for some people.
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