# Flash video player, I want it to start buffering from various points

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**Created:** [October 2, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-video-player-i-want-it-to-start-buffering-from-various-points/297485 "2009-10-02T22:19:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-video-player-i-want-it-to-start-buffering-from-various-points/297485/1 "2009-10-02T22:19:06Z")

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So, every flash video playing component that I’ve used, does a standard progressive download. But I’ve seen some out there that when the user drags the bar to a later point in the video, it will start buffering from that point.

How is this done?

The ones I use, you can’t even drag the playhead past the parts of the video that haven’t been downloaded yet.

In other words, if I want to see the last ten seconds of a video, I would want someone to be able to drag the bar to that point and have the video start playing and buffering from there.

I’m a bit confused on this, and would appreciate some advice.

Thanks,