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• 09-02-2009, 5:44 PM

  dbukhan Joined on 06-20-2009, 2:25 PM Posts 3

  Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact I remember reading that IIS7 supports seeking in the file that is being played before it downloads the whole file. As I remember the client sends GET requests for byte ranges corresponding to a seek position and the server serves the requested range. I was testing it today with a Windows Media Player 11 and skipping forward was not working until the whole file was in the local cache. IIS Media Pack is installed. Does it work with a Silverlight player only and not with a Win Media Player? Or am I missing something on the server side? Thanks, David David Bukhan

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• 09-04-2009, 5:04 PM

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  Jimin_Gao Joined on 04-10-2008, 5:38 PM Posts 26	Re: Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact What kind of media files are you using?  Can you post a link to one that we can look at?

• 09-28-2009, 7:42 PM

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  prakashd Joined on 10-16-2007, 7:33 PM Redmond Posts 29	Re: Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact Are you using a playlist to play the file?

• 10-28-2009, 12:59 PM

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  saasheim Joined on 05-23-2007, 4:49 AM Posts 3	Re: Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact Hi, We would like to do something similar. We use mp4-files. Our player (jwplayer) can be configured to send different parameters with the get-request, eg: file.mp4?start=34 to skip the first 34 seconds of the file (before the file is downloaded). What is the correct parameter when IIS serves the file? Steinar

• 10-28-2009, 8:53 PM

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  Jimin_Gao Joined on 04-10-2008, 5:38 PM Posts 26	Re: Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact IIS accepts the standard HTTP byte range requests: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html section 14.35.1 and 14.35.2.  A example would be having the request header Range: bytes=2000-3000  Basically your player needs to figure out the byte offsets for desired time points according the media file's metadata.

• 10-29-2009, 3:14 AM

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  saasheim Joined on 05-23-2007, 4:49 AM Posts 3

  Re: Skipping forward (seeking) Reply Contact  "Basically your player needs to figure out the byte offsets for desired time points according the media file's metadata. " Any ideas on how to do that? A way to solve mye problem could be that my player still sends the request file.mp4?start=60 to IIS. I build a handler in IIS that maps start=xx to the correct byte-range. I (hopefully) get the right content to the player... But, how do I calculate the byte-range?