Flash Video FLV autohide skin

I imported an FLV file, specifying the ClearOverPlayMute
skin. I need to use controls *over* my video file, because the
final file must fit my video screen exactly. In Properties I
specified autohide ON, but the skin does not hide when I roll off
the video.
I noticed that if you increase the stage size, creating a
margin of dead space around the video, the controls WILL autohide
when the cursor hovers over the dead space - but again, I can't
have dead space in my layout; the final file must fit the dimesions
of my video (that's the whole purpose of skins that lay OVER the
video, right...?)
I've seen plenty of posts on other sites with this same
problem, but no solutions. Any help would be MUCH
appreciated!

In Flash 8 you click on the FLVPlayback controller, and in
the Component Inspector you change the location for the skin in the
Parameters -> Skin section. Remember this url is relative to the
swf file, not the html file calling it.

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> Hello!
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Video.
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it displays some
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> I'm using DIV layers in DW for both the video and the
image, and I've
> added
> the wmode=opaque parameter in the code so that the
z-order of the layers
> is
> taken into consideration.
> Now, everything's look ok in Firefox, but in Internet
Explorer the video
> plays
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> source of
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No the one that auto plays when the page loads? Just
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This one works just fine
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however its
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plays a loop and
I never seen the other link until you posed back sorry. That
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thought.
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inserting
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can't independently
communicate
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Hi Again!
Is there anybody out there?
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to my ClearOverPlaySeekMute_GG_1.fla
Did not work.
Also tried inside Fla with the flv playback component to add
_y=-100
That moved the whole component up.
Then I tried to address the swf from there:
layout_mc._y = -100;
Did not work.
Then I tried to address the swf from there:
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Also did not work.
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I am out of ideas.
ANYONE?
kglad or Ned Murphy?
Thanks on beforehand
ggaarde2

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