Why are some of the playback controls unavailable on the Player?

Windows Media Player 9 Series or a player that uses the Windows Media Player 9 Series ActiveX control can use the fast-forward, rewind, pause, and skip controls when rendering streaming media content. However, these features are not available in all streaming situations. The following conditions must be met for users to use all of the playback controls when receiving a stream:

• Users must be using Windows Media Player 9 Series. The ability to fast-forward, skip, rewind, and pause content within a playlist is only supported by Windows Media Player 9 Series or a player that uses the Windows Media Player 9 Series ActiveX control.
• Content must be streamed from an on-demand publishing point. The fast-forward, skip, rewind, and pause controls are not available to clients when content is streamed from a broadcast publishing point.
• Content cannot be live. The fast-forward, skip, rewind, and pause controls are not available to clients when content is streamed live from an encoder or a remote publishing point.
• Content must be indexed. The ability to fast-forward, skip, rewind, and pause content is not available to clients if the content has not been indexed. Indexing can be performed during the encoding process or as a separate process after the content has been encoded.
• The noSkip attribute must set to False. The ability to fast-forward, skip, rewind, and pause content is not available when the player is rendering content for which the noSkip attribute has been set to True.

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