Play .flv frame-by-frame

Hi All,
I was wondering if there is a player out there that is capable of playing flash video frame-by-frame. That is, in addition to a surub bar a forward and previous button should seek to next or previous frame on the flv video. Encoding all frames as key frames is not an good option I think.
Thanks
Krishna

-loaded flv's can only seek to keyframes. So the only way to
do it simply would be to encode your flv with a keyframe every
frame. This will make the file a lot larger though.
-you can get frame accurate control if you import the video
to a timeline - so it becomes a swf- at the expense of audio synch.
-other ways to do it might include making a bitmapdata
'buffer' of frames on an invisible play-ahead copy of the flv with
no sound (I'm guessing here... I've seen frame by frame done, and I
can't think of any other way of doing it). Perhaps others have
alternate approaches - I think this way (assuming it works) would
be quite complicated.

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