FLV Seek

When you deliver your Flash video files via progressive download, it’s usually an all or nothing deal. You pay for delivering the entire file, even if your user skips most of the content. But with the FLV Seek feature of LimelightDELIVER, you can let your audience jump to any point in the media. Not only does this eliminate unnecessary delivery costs, but it provides a better user experience. For example, if a viewer wants to skip the first half of a video, FLV Seek jumps to the second half of the file, resulting in a smaller download and faster user access.

Seek and deploy

All you need to do to deploy FLV Seek is update your metadata to include keyframe and offset locations. When your user skips ahead, your embedded player will start playing from the closest keyframe relative to his scrub point. In this way, FLV Seek simulates Flash video streaming for progressive download scenarios.

Perfect for social media and other user-generated content, FLV Seek offers an economic way to provide a great user experience.

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