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Is there an already made flash based player that supports fast-forwarding & rewinding of a video file? Does it handle everything or some server-side cooperation is required?

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For what reason? It's not a tape.. You can just click to where in the video you'd like to jump.. –  halfdan Apr 14 '11 at 22:29
The only time the server would have to get involved is if you skip past what's been downloaded and venture into parts of the movie that haven't been transferred yet. At that point you'd have to stop the initial transfer, restart at the new view point, etc... then go back and restart the original transfer to fill in the missing parts. –  Marc B Apr 14 '11 at 22:40
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Fast Forward is usually done via progress bars.
However, you can mimic a fast forward like a video tape with sampling.
Move the head position ahead slightly, then let it play for a tenth of a second, then move it ahead again. It should be easy to do.
And like the comment stated don't allow the head position to go past whats not downloaded yet
Also consider muting the sound while the button is down.

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is there any ready player that accomplish this? –  12 secs ago Apr 15 '11 at 12:19
I really don't know. Really though it is not that hard to implement if you already have your video working. I really wouldn't know what existing players out there have it as I usually build my own when a client wants one. You might look into FlowPlayer google it. –  The_asMan Apr 15 '11 at 18:01
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