Director 12 on MAC not playing .flv files; only Quicktime

Although Adobe has now abandoned .flv as a supported format (which is too bad) I used it for putting embeded cue points into the movie to trigger Flash actionscript and create essentially closed captions (under the video).
Then I use the .swf movies within Director.
The problem is, on my machine, and some others, it works as expected. On some machines, the .flv never loads and therefore never plays. The Flash video component skin looks like it's just constantly trying to download the movie (green bars moving in the playback scrubber).
As a work-around; I now have put in text behind the videos saying "Due to the Adobe vs Apple Wars, the video isn't palying on all Apple computers. Please type 'a' to play the video in a window, and 'x' to close that window before proceeding".
That, essentially, opens a MIAW (Movie in a Window) using lingo from the director shell, which just plays a Quicktime movie...and a bar underneath that reminds them to type "x" to close the window.
The difficulty with that is multi-fold; including
having to supply all videos in (2) formats (Quicktime and FLV) which is pushing the size limits of a DVD,
and more importantly it doesn't have the cue points for closed captioning. I believe there are ways to embed that in the Quicktime movie; but that will be an additional burden, and
it's still not a very graceful way to integrate video playback. The .flv's look great; and the I like how the playback component skin can have audio control, timer references, etc.
Any advice?

A couple things may be at work here, and most likely related to the software installed on the targeted systems.
First, It could be a MIME type issue on the playback machine. Typically FLV and F4V aren't "known" file extensions in the MIME list. They are added to the system MIME list when the Flash Player plugin or the now-deprecated Adobe Media Player is installed.
Secondly, The older versions of Mac (pre-Lion) supported FLV playback in QuickTime using Perian (also now deprecated Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components ). I believe that was using Quicktime 7 versus Quicktime X (correct me if I'm wrong). Mavericks doesn't really playback in QuickTime 7 anymore, even if you try to open using QT7. It "forwards" over to version X - which is annoying in my opinion as sometimes I want to use my QT7 Pro features. But I digress...
An option that *may* work for you is to use an XML cue point list with the H.264 MP4 steaming videos instead of the FLV playback. Then, do a message sent to the sprites to trigger a member .text change for your captions. I know that CS5 Media Encoder had that capability to output an XML file. Not certain if CS6 or CC retained this feature since they deprecated FLV/F4V.
Using Adobe Media Encoder CS5 | Adobe Developer Connection
Some ideas and rambling. Hope it's of assistance.
Cheers,
Monica

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