Flash player eats up memory until it crashes, can't watch full SWF

Can anybody please help me out with this. I have a 180mb SWF which is a lecture from one of my online classes, when i try to watch it i can watch about 20 minutes and then it will run out of memory. I watched in my task manager as Flash player went from only using 20mb to upwards of 500mb to 1000mb and it kept going up, it's like the more i watch it just keeps going up and up. Tried it on 3 different computers and still get the same problem, is there some reason this would be happening? Why does flash player eat up so much memory? I have Adobe Flash CS4 installed so it's playing through the player not a web browser or anything.
(tried it in web browser and it does the same thing)
Please help i have a test coming up!
Thank you!

Hi,
Based on my understanding it seems that there is a problem with the coding from your Flash Animation. I am not quite sure how that animation was created. Is there an embedded video in it? Did you create it? I just wanted to get more details about the file.
Thanks,
Vicente Tulliano.

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