Media Player Question

This is actually a question of a friend of mine but now it is bugging the heck out of me. In older versions of Media Player (i.e. 7 or earlier) he was able to pause video and scroll through it, and it would show where he was in the video. Now, however, he has Media Player 8 because he has Windows XP. When he pauses the video (MPEG) and moves the scroll bar, the screen doesn't refresh until he lets go of the scroll bar. Is there any way to make it refresh when you scroll through it, or is it possible to revert back to an older version of Media Player with XP? Also, is there any other software out there that could play MPEG files that could do this. Thank you so much!

windows media player 9 does what you are describing for most video files (I think it depends on the codec)

I tried it with a MPEG and it didn't work, and I have 9. I will try a different MPEG, but please help more if you can.

sorry, thats pretty much all i know

It's okay, I am stumped on it as well. Anyone else have any ideas?