Can't skip ahead in recorded live Justin.tv broadcasts

[Kamachi]

When I record something live on Justin TV and try to watch it later on the FLV Player, I can't skip around on the file. The player says "unknown duration" and when I click info it says: "Can Seek to End? No".

This is pretty annoying since I am recording Japanese Baseball games that are three hours long and I would love to skip commercials and other superfluous stuff.

Is there a workaround that I am just missing? Perhaps a better FLV player?

Any help would be appreciated.

[sadsac]

Live streaming videos, by nature, do not have timecode metadata encoded into the flv.

Sometimes, SMPlayer can seek/skip flv files that don't have flv metadata:

http://smplayer.berlios.de/

Or, you can try injecting timecode metadata into the saved flv file by using a FLV MetaData Injector such as FLVMDI/FLVMDIGUI:

http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/

However, FLVMDI/FLVMDIGUI is limited to file sizes of less than 700mb, and also sometimes will not work if the stream wasn't saved perfectly (absent any interruptions or hiccups in the video/audio)

[jacobson00]

it worked!!!!! WOW, i inserted the timecode into the flv. and was able to convert to other format
thanks

[gjhoe]

How you did it? thanks

[carlobee]

that actually confused me a little . can you expound more on how you were able to do it?

http://storeyourpicture.com/images/signature_videoStreaming.jpg