Embedding video in an embeded SWF

Hello people. I'm building a site with a flip book component.
The book is a movie and then I load the pages via an XML file. The
pages are SWF files. You can see the book at
http://www.thiez.com/evf/main.htm
Now, If I add a video on a particular page by embedding it in
the flash movie, I will be able to see it when I test that
particular page, but it wont show when I test the whole book. So
basically, my problem is: the video shows ok in the file where it
is embedded but not in the main SWF file that calls the SWF file
containing the video. Any idea will be appreciated.
Dani Szwarc
Thiez Multimedia
www.thiez.com

there sure are a lot of angry peeps on this forum lately.
Hard to tell exactly what you are doing -
allow me to quote you:
"I am importing Mpeg2 into an embeded video in SWF and play
timeline"
not exactly sure what that means - are you importing an mpeg
into flash to the timeline?
you cant import into an embeded video - that sounds like you
already have a video file in your FLA
and are trying to import another video "into" it - cant be
true and must be a typo.
Make it easier for us to help you by explaining in detail
what you are doing.
Also - this is a volunteer based peer to peer forum - it is
not official adobe support - you need to
contact them directly if the issue can not be solved here.
Chris Georgenes
Animator
http://www.mudbubble.com
http://www.keyframer.com
Adobe Community Expert
*\^^/*
(OO)
<---->
RichKrose wrote:
> It is obvious to me that developer do NOT look at these
forums? A crash is
> ridiculous and I find NO help from Adobe. How simple can
this be? Importing
> Mpeg1 or 2 into Flash (only 7M) as a progressive
download. I cannot believe it
> is a codec problem. Is there anyone at Adobe with a
conscious that is willing
> to help? I spent 800$ for this package? I must be crazy.
>

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