Seek button doesn't work in some Windows Media files?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited October 2004 in Internet & Media
I have a lot of Windows Media Player videos on my computer. Some of them I encoded, and some were downloaded from the internet.

I've noticed that on some of them, you can't click the Seek bar to automatically advance the video to that point. You just have to wait for it to play that far. Then you can't rewind it if you want to see it again right away.

One that I have like that now says in File<<Properties that it uses the MPEG-4 video codec.

Why can't they fast forward or rewind like that? I have lots of different codecs, but play everything in Windows Media Player 9 if I possibly can. I like it best.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    AVI files can only seek to the nearest keyframe, which is placed every (FPS * 10) -- It's a limitation of the container. If you're unable to fastforward or rewind in XViD/DiVX files at all, however, my suggestion is to try Media Player Classic to see if the issue is WMP-related.

    But some codec combinations (Notably windows-proprietary ones) don't let you fastforward or rewind.

    //EDIT:

    Reread your post, are you specifically talking about WMV and ASF?
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