Jump to time when streaming.

[MS]

Using: get_iplayer 2.94-ppa23, RTMPDump v2.4 (on Linux Mint).

When streaming a BBC video jumping forwards or backwards or to a 
specific time position is ineffective.

Doing so with mplayer causes it to either pause until you unpause, or it 
causes mplayer to stop responding (requiring the mplayer process to be 
killed).

VLC works only a little better: Using the jump forwards or backwards 
keys (e.g. 10 secs, 30 secs, 1 min) all do nothing, jumping backwards to 
a specific time also fails, while jumping forwards to a specific time 
does work but only by waiting until the 'download' reaches the time 
you've entered; fine for a minute or two but not to resume, say, one 
hour into a long video.

On the other hand when using BBC iPlayer you can jump to any position 
you like.

I was wondering whether there is any way around this with get_iplayer 
(apart from downloading the whole video in the first place)?

If not, then is this something the developers are considering taking a 
look at, or are there technical reasons why it wouldn't be possible?

Thanks.