Video seek problems with streaming video

i having problem seeking video on load.  though video streamed (via rackspace cloud service) takes several seconds player.canseekto(time) return true.  shouldn't instantaneous streaming video?

 

i can seek close playhead immediately, farther out timeline returns false.

 

 

 

here's code snips:

 

var resource:urlresource = new urlresource( cdn_server + media_file );

mediafactory = new defaultmediafactory();

container = new mediacontainer();

player = new mediaplayer();

 

--- add whole bunch of listeners ---

 

video = mediafactory.createmediaelement( resource );

 

if(video videoelement) {

      (video videoelement).smoothing = true;

}

 

player.media = video;

 

if (container.containsmediaelement(video)) {

     container.removemediaelement(video);

}

container.addmediaelement( video );

 

 

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and seek function:

 

public function seektotime(new_time:number) : void {

 

      var seektrait = player.media.gettrait(mediatraittype.seek);

     /* debug output here, including player.canseekto(new_time) */

      if (!_datamanager._hasendscreen && _datamanager._isstarted) {

        if (player.canseekto(new_time)) {

          /* seek player */

          player.seek(new_time);

 

/* stuff snipped */

 

        } else {

              showbuffermessage('seek not available',2);

        }

      }

    }

hi,

 

in place have bunch of listeners, if have 1 mediaplayerstatechangeevent.media_player_state_change, tell when player "ready" play. until then, not able play or seek. please check if canseek stays false later event.

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