Flex App Hangs on Streaming FLV Seek

Good afternoon all.
In my current Flex 2 project, I'm switching our video
playback components from using progressive download to streaming
playback via FMS 3. Everything's working great and doing what it
should, but occasionally when I perform a seek on a NetStream, my
whole application freezes until the seek operation is complete.
I was curious if there were places in my code that were
causing the slowdown, so I created a very basic barebones version
of the streaming player (one netconnection, one netstream, one
flash.media.video component, and an HSlider as a timeline) and even
then I was getting the freeze on seek.
Is this behavior common, or should I perform more tests to
see if there's a bottleneck somewhere? If it helps, FMS is
currently being run on a somewhat overtaxed dev box - could that be
causing the freeze as well?
Thanks!
--GC

quote:
Originally posted by:
justria
Me? I've seen the problem on Safari.
I've got the same thing on IE when anti-phishing filter is
turned on.
http://mitek.id.au/blog/2008/08/02/flex-debugging-session-is-stuck-at-the-loading-stageie- only/
Turning anti-phishing filter off for my local site fixed this
problem.
And I've got RSL libraries which I am dynamically loading and
sometimes they stuck as well at a later stage. And I can't find the
reason or solution for it so far. It happens only on a local site
(Apache 2.2.9 on Windows) and it never happens on production site
which runs same version of Apache under FreeBSD.
Actually, one thing improved the situation, but not fixed it
- I've added an empty event handler on preintialize event in the
loaded application component. The success rate improved from 2/10
to 5/10.
Cheers,
Dmitri.

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