Adobe Flash Player

Does anyone know of a flash codec I can install that will allow me to control the behaviour of flash video being played in my browswer (IE)?

Currently I have Adobe flash 10 installed but when it plays a video I am unable to fast-forward or rewind or skip or zoom the current video.

This is extremely frustrating and I am disgusted that Adobe treats me like this, which is why I want to install an alternative.

TIA

Actually this has nothing to do with the video, but rather with the flash code that controls playback. Normally you’ll have a video in flv, but that won’t play by itself. That’s why you have different views. For example on youtube you have the red bar, you can pause and move the time cursor to a different point, and maximize. On some sites you’re allowed to save the video, on others it won’t let you pause or fast-forward or rewind, only stream. It’s controlled by the flash (swf) playback code (you can read it in the html source).
In any case if you just want to grab the flv file for later viewing in your favorite flv player (say vlc media player or wimpy’s flv player) then google for flv downloaders.

sure, that makes perfect sense. But I assume that when Windows gets an instruction to play a flv, it looks up the location of the flv player in the registry and then runs it.

Hasnt someone built a version that allows us to control the time line? and skip the current video or save locally, etc, etc?

And isnt this kind of code (a flv player) a type of “codec”?

Nothing to do with the registry. Sometimes the direct URL for the flv file will be obfuscated, and only accessible through the flash (swf) applet.
If you know flash and html you could write your own applet that accesses those pages (just redirect to the correct URL). The speediest way to handle it IMHO is to just save the file locally either in your Internet Explorer cache or with an flv downloader. Once you have it on your hard drive, when you play it with a standalone flv player like VLC, you can control pause or even playback speed, all you want.

I appreciate your help carrot, although I dont have the necessary skills to write the flash and html, not a developer.

Saving the file to a directory and then running it separately defeats the purpose; I wanted to be able to have shuttle controls and save feature on the menu of the flv in place in IE.

Sounds like there isnt a simple add in I can install to achieve this. Surprising really, because I would have thought people with the necessary skills would have done this by now, at least for their own use.