Why do I get an error when I specify certain range of frames in the function READ while reading WMV video files in MATLAB 7.14 (R2012a)?

I am trying to read a WMV video file attached with the solution by the following MATLAB code,

Obj = VideoReader('ESPN_vid1.wmv');

Video1 = read(Obj, [1 10]);

Video2 = read(Obj, [100 150]);

Video3 = read(Obj, [300 350]);

Video4 = read(Obj, [312 376]);

The code works fine for the above ranges of frames.

But when I execute the following code,

Obj = VideoReader('ESPN_vid1.wmv');

Video1 = read(Obj, [35 50]);

Video2 = read(Obj, [2 50]);

I get the following error report for the above ranges,

 Error using VideoReader/read (line 86)

 The frame range requested is beyond the end of the file.

 Error in Read_Video (line 2)

 Video1 = read(Obj, [35 50]);

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This is a bug in MATLAB 7.14(R2012a) wherein the READ function does not read the WMV video files for certain ranges of frames.

As a workaround you can do the following,

1) Always start reading the WMV file from frame 1

2) Convert the WMV file to another format using a third party tool.