# Netstream Seek Oddity

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netstream-seek-oddity/262572>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 7, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netstream-seek-oddity/262572 "2008-06-07T04:56:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![dail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dail](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dail)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netstream-seek-oddity/262572/1 "2008-06-07T04:56:38Z")

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Hi,

I’m currently working on a video playing app, and all is fine, except for one odd bug.

I have a standard seek drag bar. When the video is paused at start and I used that seek bar, the video will seek to the point I drag to, then when it plays, will play OK for a second or so, then either pause for the amount of time I set the seek for and then play again normally, or simply jump to some odd point.

If I play the video, and then use the seek bar, it works perfectly.

I tracked all the relevant stream times etc, nothing seems amiss, but for some reason, when you seek to a point from a paused (at start) file it seems to crap out. It seems that Flash needs to play the file for a little bit to get itself all in sync.

Has anyone encountered anything like this, any work arounds?

Heres my seek function, which acts as a setter in a video class;

```auto

//set current video seek
		public function set SeekPointAsPercent(newPercentPos:Number) {
			if (videoMetaData!==null) {
				var newVideoPos:Number = videoMeta.duration*newPercentPos;
				videoStream.seek(newVideoPos);
			} else {
				trace("Attempting to access video meta data before we have any!");
			}
		}

```

I should note, this is for progressive video, and the file is completely loaded.