Flash Action Happening Too Early

I'm attempting to have a flash video file play before loading a web site.
The way I'm doing it is to import an FLV video that I created in AE, into Flash, set the frame rate of the Flash to that of the (video 24fps) and add an action at frame 241 which calls the URL of the home page to be loaded.
On the authoring workstation, it seems to work okay... the .swf file plays (in VLC Media Player) and then a web browser opens.
Once this .swf and its associated html file are uploaded to the server, the video, instead of playing all 240 frames, plays about 40-42 frames and then loads the web site.
I spent hours searching for another embedded time code somewhere in the html file, and went over the flash project over and over again, but could not find a command that was making it dump and load the home page prematurely.
What could be causing this behavior, and how could I go about correcting it so that the entire 10-second video is played before the site loads the home page?

Initially, I had simply imported it as streaming video, but I redid the whole file, after reading your reply above, and discovered how to embed it in the timeline. However, the results are the same, even though the command to load mwhdvideo.com is at frame 241. I can't understand why it skips 80% of the remaining frames and just goes to the "load web page" behavior.
Now if I open the index.html on a local PC, it will run the full 10-seconds of video and then pop up a security warning about Flash trying to open a page on another domain or something similar. But once it is on the server, it no longer waits 10 seconds and cuts over to the home page after just 2 seconds. I've run out of ideas.
UPDATE:
Just for kicks, I tried an experiment: I removed the behavior command at the end of the flash file (the one that loads the home page) and tried it both on the local PC and on the server:
The local copy played through and continued repeat looping the video without ever calling the home page.
The copy uploaded to the server played the first 40 frames or so and forwarded to the home page.
I'm starting to think it's not the flash file, but something peculiar going on when it's on a live server...

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Process: 320 ExecStart=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness allowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/asus-screen-brightness.service
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta systemd[1]: Starting Allow user access to screen brightness...
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta sudo[349]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta sudo[349]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: cat: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: /usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness: line 8: /10: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/10")
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: /usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness: line 10: 2*: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*")
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: cat: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: chgrp: cannot access ‘/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness’: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta asus-screen-brightness[320]: chmod: cannot access ‘/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness’: No such file or directory
Oct 12 11:23:44 tachychineta systemd[1]: Started Allow user access to screen brightness.
[root@tachychineta shapeshifter]# sc restart asus-screen-brightness
[root@tachychineta shapeshifter]# sc status asus-screen-brightness
asus-screen-brightness.service - Allow user access to screen brightness
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/asus-screen-brightness.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:25:28 +0200; 2s ago
Process: 2547 ExecStop=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness disallowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2579 ExecStart=/usr/bin/asus-screen-brightness allowusers (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/asus-screen-brightness.service
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta systemd[1]: Starting Allow user access to screen brightness...
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2593]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chgrp users /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2593]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2597]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta sudo[2597]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 12 11:25:28 tachychineta systemd[1]: Started Allow user access to screen brightness.
Exactly the same problem occurs with asus-kbd-backlight.service which is needed to allow users to control the keyboard backlight. It also fails because of missing /sys/ entries if started too early.
Problem 2: automatic login & X11
I use the method described on the wiki to autologin into TTY1 with my user and my .bash_profile contains
[[ $(fgconsole) = 1 ]] && startx
and my .xserverrc is configured as explained in this fantastically useful article by falconindy.
This way, X starts automatically and my session is properly authenticated for things like udiskie. I'm not using [testing] but instead rebuilt polkit with --enable-systemd and it's working just fine. The problem is, just like in problem 1, Xorg fails to start every now and then, failing with
(EE) No devices detected.
I don't have a full log because it hasn't happened in a while, but I'm very certain it's because the chipset isn't ready, yet.
Solutions?
I added "i915" to /etc/modules-load.d/static.conf hoping that would cover both the Xorg and backlight problems but it doesn't help. I then tried adding i915 to my MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding the initramfs and at least it looked like that way the problems went away but it added about 4 seconds to the time spent by the "kernel" during boot which is quite unacceptable. (Plots with and without i915 in MODULES).
I read the systemd.unit and systemd.service man pages but I can't find a way to speficy required kernel modules for a service file. I'm not sure if specifying the modules in /etc/modules-load.d shouldn't be enough (because apparently it's supposed to load for sysinit.target, which is early) but apparently it isn't.
Any ideas how I can get these services to work properly without sacrificing too much boot time?
Thank you
Last edited by Shapeshifter (2012-10-12 10:20:09)

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Ez all crew,
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If you disconnect your nano from your computer too early (with the "do not disconnect" warning still flashing on the screen), does it affect the battery life of the nano?

>If you disconnect your nano from your computer too early (with the "do not disconnect" warning still flashing on the screen), does it affect the battery life of the nano?
No.
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Gary
-edit-
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Also considering if the battery need replacing!

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I ran the cost estimate for one material on 12.06.2008 and i released the cost estimate. Here it is saying 'Cost Estimate released too early'. I thought system is releasing the cost for material for the next month. but i want to update the material cost for this month only.
And how many days before you have to run the cost estimate for the new month.
sateesh

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Please check the period which you have mentioned in CK24.
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System allows to release cost estimate only once in a period. Normal practice is to carry out cost run at the end of the month.
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regards,
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