Start downloading from the middle of a video

Hi all,
I am new to this forum, so pardon me if there is anything inappropriate. :")
Currently, I am writing an applet that is capable of searching within videos. The main part of the program accepts the search term and returns the time within the searched video that the search term occurs (as heard in the audio.)
The problem I am having is presenting the results. The source video is on a server, and the applet will access the video and play it using Java Media Player framework. However, it is undesirable to make the user wait for the player to prefetch (download, if that's the correct term) the whole video, which can be large.
Instead, it would be great if we can make the player start prefetching/downloading at the desired media time, for example, from the 15th second onwards, and then start playing from there.
So far, I have tried the setMediaTime method, but of course, it can only be called when the player has finished realizing. From the guide, I interpret the realization phase as simply getting the info of the media clip. However, it seems that the player must download the whole clip before it can use the setMediaTime method.
Thanks for reading ^_^. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Tong.

Oh hi... seemed like I've got the problem fixed. :") For this particular case, just get the server side to stream the video to the clients (possibly one instance is created for each IP address, if resources allow). The server can quickly seek to any particular position within the media clip, and start streaming from there. The clients' players just need to listen to the stream from the appropriate instance on the server.
JMF can do the streaming just fine. I've switched to VLC before I knew that, so now I'm having problem making the JMF on the client work with the VLC streaming. This is weird, considering the streaming protocol to be identical. But I should get that fixed soon.
Thanks anyway! Hope this helps someone.

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