A Swf into a Fla.

Basically I'm making a website and I have an animation that uses a V-Cam. I want to put this animation into my website.
The probelm is if I just load it, you can "see" the v-cam but you're not looking through it.
It's wierd to explain now that I actually have to try.
But the reason I can't export it as a Giff. or maybe an AVI and just load in as a movie, is because you'd see the Vcam and not look through it.. so I have to keep it a swf, but now even when I do it seems to be doing the same thing.
I need a Swf. player in my website. in my Flash-made website...
I've looked it up everywhere, but it's the V-Cam thing that's the problem, not loading an external Swf.

Hi there!
I was extremely glad to find this post, as it helped me with this same issue, however, in implementing this, it created another issue. I inserted my movieclip exactly as shown, and it works tremendously, except that it now loops continuously. I have tried inserting a stop(); function on the clip's timeline after the mc ends, on its own seperate timeline..it doesn't work no matter where I put it. I do not have just a single actions layer, if that makes any difference.
So my question is, what code stops the mc from looping and where would I put it? the clips code is as follows;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc",1);
mc.loadMovie("dnbanner2.swf");
mc._x = 140;
mc._y = 13;
Any help would be very greatly appreciated, I have been at it for days and many, many browsed forums

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