Streaming from a specific location within a file

Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie here so please be patient if this is a trivial
question.
What I need to know is the following: can I start streaming a
video/audio file from a specific location (like a timestamp) with
Flash Media Server?
More precisely, the idea is this: I want Flash Media Server
to establish a connection with another server (remote server) to
receive some information like a file name and a time stamp. After
this I want Flash Media Server to start streaming (to a simple
client, like always) that file from that specific moment indicated
in the "packet" it received from the other server. Can this be
done? Is it hard?
Thank you so much,
Francesco.

DarrylBurke wrote:
sabre150 wrote:
JosAH wrote:
And who's the slowest old sod again? ;-)
kind regards,
JosMe! I had not even got round to answering this!Humph. I only just read it.
dbPlease stand in the corner next to Sabre please.
kind regards,
Jos (<--- speedy ;-)

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