Absolute beginner's question: scaling video in embedded player

Hi folks,
I'm an absolute beginner in flash video embedding - my company has purchased FMS 3.5 and I have to -simply- stream videos from a server via following HTML-Code:
<object width="800" height="600" id="videoPlayer" name="videoPlayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
<param name="movie" value="../swfs/videoPlayer.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="flashvars" value="&videoWidth='800'&videoHeight='600'&dsControl=manual&dsSensitivity=100&serverURL=r tmp://<here the url>&DS_Status=true&streamType=vod&autoStart=true" />
<embed src="../swfs/videoPlayer.swf" width="800" height="600" id="videoPlayer" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="videoPlayer" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="&videoWidth='800'&videoHeight='600'&dsControl=manual&dsSensitivity=100&serverU RL=rtmp://<here the url>&DS_Status=true&streamType=vod&autoStart=true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>
</object>
My problem is simply the scaling of the videos. The files are .flv-files and do stream very well from the source directory to my browser. But when I change the object-width or object-height the video is just cut instead of scaled.
If I change the videoHeight or videoWidth (in Flashvars) it has no effect. What am I doing wrong?
ps The player naturally scales the clips slightly larger than they really are. So I already guess that there's a setup-file with settings, but I have no idea where to look it up to configure the player.
I would appreciate your help!
Thanks in advance!
kuk

IN CASE someone has this problem too, it seems the standard Adobe stream player integrated in the FMS-Installation (...) cannot resize the video. So the solution seems to be using another player. I'll use the free FlowPlayer which I also used for replaying .flv-Files, and which has a rtmp-plugin for streaming. Good luck folks...
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