Help a brother out in MX?

Question

Hey guys, now I'm seriously doubting any of you still work
with Flash MX, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and ask for the off
chance someone out there still has MX and uses it for projects.
In any case here's the situation:
I have some animation cycling through afew different slides
or something to that extent. I also have video in those slides. I
just showed the person I'm doing this for the flash and they wanted
to know if it was possible to stall the transition of slides long
enough for the video to play through then move on to the next
slide. Granted I do have a play head handy for the videos with
buttons to pause, stop, play, fast forward and rewind, but they
really do want the video to play to the end before moving on.
So is there any way that I can code a stall for a video to
play through to the end?
Thank you for your time and advice in advance.
EDIT: The video stuff was taken care of, the problem now is
loading and unloading external movieclips. Scroll down a little to
see what the problem is if you don't mind helping me out.

Answer 1

seanw, yes that can be done. you can use setTimeout() to call
a function after a designated amount of time like 3000
milliseconds. but you'll probably want to call that function (which
will reload your original movieclip) 3000 ms after loading of the
replacement is complete and not 3000 ms after you start loading the
replacement. so, you'll need to use preloader code or the
moviecliploader listener's onLoadInit() method to trigger your
setTimeout().
padideh2, i don't think you'll get the results you want
trying to use a preloader for a flv loading from a cd. during the
seek time, the computer's os is busy and won't be updating a flash
display. and the flvplayback class'es bytesLoaded and bytesTotal
properties are only meaningful for http downloads.