http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/cuepoints Questions tagged with 'cuepoints' at Ask MetaFilter. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:24 -0800 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/83359/How%2Ddoes%2DGoogle%2DVideo%2Dlet%2Dyou%2Djump%2Dto%2Dany%2Dpart%2Dof%2Da%2Dvideo How does Google/YouTube manage to allow a user to jump to any part of a video without having it preloaded first? Is it the player they use or maybe how the video file is hosted? I've got a client with a fairly standard 4-minute demo video they want to put up on their site. They'd like to be able to let a user click on some tabs across the top to jump to various sections. I've got this all working as long as the video has already finished preloading past that point in the video.<br> <br> I'm not really sure how much it will help, but here's a <a href="http://www.wootworks.com/sitespect/demo/demo.html">link to the project</a>.<br> <br> I'd love to be able to have the same ability that, say, Google video uses where you can link directly to a specific point in the video without needing to have the video preloaded up to that point.<br> <br> Is there a tutorial or some other resource out there with a good explanation of how to do this? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.83359 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:24 -0800 cue cuepoints flash flv preload seek video ssmith