Media Player 8

[Kush]

In windows Media Player 8 when i play some asf's or mpg's i cant fast forward if i try to it just puts the marker back to where it is. is there a way i can get around that?

 

[Sprung]

I have never really noticed it on MPGs, but I cannot FF or RW ASFs either. I don't believe that the ASF format provides for individual frame identifiers (guessing by reasoning), otherwise, you could use FF and RW.

 

[Kush]

you are right

yeah sorry it hasnt happend on mpgs only asf's

 

[Qumahlin]

ASF will only allow you to fast forward and rewind if it is an absolute complete stream that has been closed it seems. If it's only a partial stream that has any data missing on the end or is incomplete in anyway it seems to force you to suffer through the whole stream (yuck) I don't know the exact mechanics of why this is, but I tested it a few times when I was getting mad about one of my simpsons episodes not fast forwarding heheh

 

[Kush]

Yeah

Yeah i undresstand, but is there a way to get around this like downloading a program or something?

 

[dmtuc10]

If you use a program called divx fix you can strip the index of the file and play it normally without a problem🙂 🙂