FLVPlayback control not working across the internet

Hi,

I sent the message below over a week ago and there has been no response.

There must be a heap of Red5 people playing back stored FLV files. Let’s share some of our experience.

So if you can please tell me what you are using on the client side and whether you have found a satisfactory solution ....

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I have been trying to play back stored FLV files using rtmp from a Red5 server.

If I do it inside my own network I can play the files without a glitch using an application based around the Flash FLVPlayback component written in AS2. However when I try to play them over the internet the behaviour is very erratic.  It appears as though the component has not been designed to be used with a streaming server.

Using the cursor to seek to a position in the video often fails with the cursor jumping back to the beginning of the file. No event errors are reported from the FLVPLayBack control so there appears to be nothing that I can specifically do to deal with this misbehaviour.

I am getting very frustrated with using this component because it does not seem to be possible to get the component to behave consistently and reliably when used over the internet.

I would appreciate some advice as to whether what I am trying to do is achievable or not. There have been issues/concerns raised over the use of the FLVPlayback control with Red5.  I am not seeing any issues/errors on the server side so I have been assuming that the problem is just with the client. 

Hopefully there is somebody out there with some experience to share? Or perhaps a suggestion to try something else?

Regards,

David Schulberg