Flash video - behaviour when buffering stops

I've started using progressive Flash video on one of my sites. The objective is to provide subtitling for foreign learners of English. It works well, subtitles jump around on full screen, but that's just cosmetic.
However, one of my testers reports that periodically the playback stops, and you have to press the start button to continue. The desired behaviour would be à la YouTube, where it pauses, the buffer fills, it continues. I've only seen this problem once on my system.
There are references to this in the discussions, eg http://forums.adobe.com/message/3794903#3794903 but few answers.
So, can I ask
1. With progressive flash video, what is the expected default behaviour when the playback hits the end of the buffer because too little data is being downloaded - is it supposed to recover and continue automatically ?
or
2. If not, is there a known fix ?
My goodness, it's a black art Flash Video ! Here's a link where maybe you'll see the problem.
http://www.regardez-des-videos-en-anglais.org/January2012/index.htm
... and if you don't you can enjoy the famous bit of the Rocky Horror Show !

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