Flowplayer: Start playing video from specified time

Question

This question is specific to flowplayer video player (Flash Version) which I am using to play videos. Its a single video, not a playlist, I am referring to.

I am trying to setup to play video at particular time, say from 3 PM to 5PM. If user opens my video linkat 3.30 PM, video should start playing after 30 minutes from beginning but not from beginning of video. Similar to a TV program scheduled.

I read somewhere as follows

“You will always need to stream your videos (rtmp, pseudostreaming, httpstreaming), because with progressive download starting from or seeking to unbuffered positions is not possible.”

But youtube allows playing videos @ particular time! Example : http://youtu.be/JfAMCphCB1I?t=3m13s

How can I achieve to play video @ particular time? So far I didn't get any plugin or any parameter to seek and start from a specified position.

Appreciate kind support.

Note : Other question, not helping. This.seek is not working!

Answer 1

Switch to RTMP:

According to this: if you're not using RTMP, you can't. But Adobe is a bit biased, because they created RTMP.

Delivering content over HTTP is usually called “progressive download”. The content must transfer from the server to the client in a progression from the beginning to the end of a file. A client cannot seek to a forward location until that location and all the data before it has downloaded.

Delivering content over RTMP is called “streaming”. The client creates a socket connection to the server (such as Adobe Media Server) over which the content is sent in a continuous stream. The client can seek to any point in the content instantly, regardless of how much data has been transferred.