Compose movie FLV without control bars?

How do I produce a SWF that acts as a Flash-player that does not have a control bar? All of the ones I have place a control bar on top of the visual.
THANKS!

As Todd suggested, you can get much more help on that on the Flash forums. The short answer: You need a standard player, but you hide the playback controls by feeding it with proper external parameters (Flashvars) in the HTML code that control what is actualyl visible. For certain scenarios you may also wish to properly embed the FLV video in an SWF file instead of using a streaming player such as is the default e.g. in Dremweaver.
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> I dropped a MOV file into the web page and it created a
control bar at the
> bottom. This is nice for most uses, but I don't want it.
Any idea how to
> remove the bar? I tried re-sizing the graphic, but that
just resizes it
from
> the middle, so the result is that I would have to cut
off a portion from
the
> top equal to the size of the control bar at the bottom
>
>

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