# Retrieving video and audio streams

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/retrieving-video-and-audio-streams/257630>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 15, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/retrieving-video-and-audio-streams/257630 "2008-04-15T20:07:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/retrieving-video-and-audio-streams/257630/1 "2008-04-15T20:07:22Z")

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For a project, I have to stream video and audio from some server to my computer. Any language can be used, so I choose Flash because it would be easy to make the player look cool. I’m wondering if these are possible:

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[_] Is it possible to retrieve only a portion of audio rather than the whole file at once? I want to be able to grab say the portion between 00:05 sec and 00:06 sec and play it.  
[_] Similarly, can I retrieve any arbitrary frame from a motion jpeg video file?  
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A link to an article about this would be very much appreciated.