# advance frame-by-frame on a streaming video in flash

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/advance-frame-by-frame-on-a-streaming-video-in-flash/35635
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 26, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/advance-frame-by-frame-on-a-streaming-video-in-flash/35635 "2010-10-26T14:55:24Z")
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### Author: ![eRez\_Huberman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e480ec/32.png) [@eRez\_Huberman](https://community.wowza.com/u/eRez_Huberman)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/advance-frame-by-frame-on-a-streaming-video-in-flash/35635/1 "2010-10-26T14:55:24Z")

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hi,

i’m new to the world of streaming video. i’ve recently installed Wowza media server 2 locally, currently only for testing purposes. i’m using my flash video-player to run the ‘sample.mp4’ file provided with the media server (in the ‘content’ folder), and everything works fine, except of accurate seeking functionality - or in other words advancing frame-by-frame.

when i use VLC to play my video file i have no problems advancing frame-by-frame. however, when i use the ‘seek()’ function to move the playhead a fraction of a second, its seems to move only to the next key frame (meaning that only once every few mouse clicks the playhead advances dramatically).

i thought that when using streaming video (unlike progressive download) this issue is resolved. am i wrong? did i miss something?

thanks in advance,

eRez

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### Author: ![Roger\_Littin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@Roger\_Littin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roger_Littin)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/advance-frame-by-frame-on-a-streaming-video-in-flash/35635/2 "2010-10-26T22:27:54Z")

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Have a look at [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-trickplay-for-flash-vp6-or-spark-content](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-trickplay-for-flash-vp6-or-spark-content)

Also, if you set the following property in your Application.xml Streams/Properties section then you will be able to seek to any position.

```auto
	<Property>
		<Name>seekTarget</Name>
		<!-- valid values are: videoKeyFrame, audio, enhanced //DEFAULT = videoKeyFrame -->
		<Value>enhanced</Value>
	</Property>

```