Introduction

Flowplayer pseudostreaming plugins supports seeking using byte-range requests. This method of serving content is also known as Byte serving. Byte serving is supported by most, but not all, HTTP/1.1 capable web servers. The benefit is that you don't need any special streaming scripts or modules installed on your servers to be able to support random seeking in the video timeline.

Note that this requires at least Flash version 10.1. to be available in the client browser.

Flowplayer configuration

First thing you should to is to prepare your video files for pseudostreaming. After that you can setup things as follows.

flowplayer("player", "http://vod01.netdna.com/vod/demo.flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf", {
    log: { level: 'debug', filter: 'org.flowplayer.pseudostreaming.net.*' },
    
    plugins: { 
        pseudo: { 
            url: 'flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.5-dev2.swf',
        
            // enabe byte-range requests
            rangeRequests: true
        } 
    },
    
    clip: {
        url: 'http://pseudo01.hddn.com/vod/demo.flowplayervod/Extremists.flv',
        provider: 'pseudo'
    }
	
});

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