Adding subtitle functionality to my custom flv player

Hey all,
I have a custom flv player and i'm slowly adding more functionality to it as I go along but i've hit a wall.
I want to add a subtitle button that toggles between show/hide. I've seen on the internet that the best way is to use an XML file (holding the script, times etc.), which I have no problem writing.
I'm having problems trying to replicate the 'FLVPlaybackCaptioning' component (in Flash CS3) in to my custom flv player. I.E. Adding the right actionscript to my toggle button.
Can anybody help me as I just can't find anything on the internet.
Any advice is welcome!
Thanks
egr103

Well the problem is that I can't find any tutorials or help about getting a subtitle toggle button into my custom flv player, an example of which can be found here: http://idl.newport.ac.uk/dev/customplayer.html
I don't like using the FLVPlayback component built into flash as it is too clunky but at the moment that is the only way I can get subtitles to toggle on and off (using the FLVPlaybackCaption component).
Ideally I would like to use an XML file to do the subtitles. Any ideas?

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> Hi All
>
> Right, where do i start - i have just spent the last 3
months learning HTML
> and CSS for a website that i run. We are a video
production company, and we
> need to have a bank of videos that will be updated on an
almost weekly basis.
> I want to use some sort of flash video set up, where the
main video plays and
> there is a slideshow of other videos below - wrapped up
in a XML file.
>
> BUT - I can't find any up to date tutorials on making
your own FLV player that
> is compatible with XML style lists. When i say make my
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> have made a skin in PS and imported it to Flash. I can
import a video that is
> Actionscript controlled - but from there, all the
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> to use old code that CS3 doesn't understand.
>
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