Flash video on linux

I am not sure if this is the right place to post, but here
goes.
I need to include flash video on a cd. People using the cd
will probably not have internet access and the cd needs to run on
linux.
Is there a way that I can include flash movies to run in
firefox without having a streaming server.
The only thing I can control is that the user will have flash
player 9 installed.
I created a flash movie in flex and inported a flash video
file. This plays fine in windows but does not want to play in
linux.
Any help would be appreciated. I have no experience with
video and flash video, so I am not sure if this is even
possible.

if you get any further in this, please post here!
I am also interested in any vp6-encoding solution on linux!
Thanks,
jan

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Score!
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Last edited by DanGray (2010-03-21 14:35:42)

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