Advance frame-by-frame on a streaming video

Hi,
i've recently installed Wowza media server 2 locally, currently only for testing purposes.
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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