Viewing Videos

[DavidC]

I've found that some videos will not allow me to fast-forward / pick a spot at which I want to start viewing, but others will, even videos with the same file extensions.

I've noticed this in .asx and .wmv files.

(P.S. One of my gripes with windows is that it will not separate .wma's and .mp3's if you attempt to sort by file type... the f'ing bastards know that you'll delete them if it's easy to do, so they've manipulated their O/S to give their proprietary (?) formats an advantage...)

Anyways, is there a video suite out there that's free that will play videos more fluidly, even when there's corruption in the file (is that one of the things that will cause this to occur?), or when the video attempts to specify that you can't fast forward (is that possible?).

Why is this happening and what can I do?

--Dave.