Flash Video Gallery – link to specific video upon launch

I saw this question asked before when first doing a search on
this topic, but have yet to see any replies, let alone any that
work.
How can I link from within a web page to a specific video
that is contained within a modified version of
Adobe's
Flash video Gallery tutorial?
When a user clicks on a link that says "View Dr. Jones
Lecture", I want the Flash Video Gallery to launch with Dr. Jones'
video loading and playing immediately. As it stands now, the video
player just wants to wait until someone locates and then clicks on
the video of their choice WITHIN the video player itself. That is
fine if a generic "Launch our Video Gallery" link is clicked, but
not if the user is expecting a specific video to play.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Cheers!

I normally don't like "bumping," but I am still looking for a
solution to this problem. Thank you in advance.

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arikanoa wrote:
> I am creating a video gallery off of the demo action
script 3, video gallery,
> that is shown on this site. I have updated the XML file
that contains the link
> to the thumbnails and videos to the appropriate url.
When I test the project
> out, I get the following error:
>
> TypeError: Error #1085: The element type "video" must be
terminated by the
> matching end-tag "</video>".
> at
fvg::FlashVideoGallery/fvg:FlashVideoGallery::onDataHandler()
> at
>
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunctio
> n()
> at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
> at
flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
>
> I am fairly new to Action Scripts and would really
appreciate overcoming this
> hurdle.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ari
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> 
> <flashvideogallery>
>
> 
> <labels>
> <label name="title"><![CDATA[ActionScript 3.0
Flash Video Gallery]]></label>
> <label name="welcome"><![CDATA[<b>Click
on a thumbnail to view
> details</b>]]></label>
> <label name="videoPreview"><![CDATA[Webvideo
Preview]]></label>
> </labels>
>
> 
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> <link name="textLink1"
> url="
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/video/"><![CDATA[Learn
more about
> Flash video >]]></link>
> <link name="textLink2"
> url="
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/"><![CDATA[Visit
the Flash Developer
> Center >]]></link>
> <link name="textLink3"
> url="
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_gallery.html"><![CDATA[Exa
> mine the gallery source files >]]></link>
> <link name="textLink4" url="
http://www.adobe.com"><![CDATA[View
more
> examples of Flash video >]]></link>
> <link name="textLink5"
> url="
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/"><![CDATA[Learn
about Flash CS3
> Professional >]]></link>
> <link name="textLink6" url=""/>
> <link name="textLink7" url=""/>
> <link name="textLink8" url=""/>
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>
> 
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view="1"><![CDATA[North America]]></filter>
> <filter name="checkbox7" id="r2" view="0"/>
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> 
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>
flv="video/Qlippit_3_Adam3_pix_to_grandP-26May07-0523PM.flv"
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Bubble]]></title>
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way to show their demo reels
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experience. Their solution is a
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home page.]]></description>
> <moreInfo url="
http://www.adobe.com"><![CDATA[More
info...]]></moreInfo>
> </video>
> </flashvideogallery>
>
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editing the
dating in 3 different ways: Source <which has syntax/tag
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