Help - weird graphic "flash" in published file

I have several published Captivate files I have
imported into a Lectora file delivered via our LMS. When entering a
page that contains a movie, I'm seeing this weird green graphic for
a split second, then the movie begins to play. The graphic looks
like a grid of navigation buttons - next, back, refresh, mute, etc.
It's only happening on pages that contain a Captivate movie.
Nowhere in my Captivate files or my Lectora file do I have a
graphic that looks like this.
Any ideas as to what's happening and how I can get rid of it?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Rachel

Hello,
If I do understand your question all right (sorry, am not a native English speaker), I do believe you are mixing up two things. If you want indeed to publish to PDF (and not to SWF or EXE), you'll get a multimedia PDF (in which a SWF can play) but in that case the user really do need the Adobe Reader 9, previous versions do not support multimedia PDF.
What seems a bit contradictory is that you start with mentioning an issue with a PDF that should be called from a CP-slide. The problem there could be that you were linking to an absolute path on your PC when browsing, can you check that? If you introduce simply the name of the PDF and you make sure that the PDF and the CP-published files (normally HTML, JS and SWF) are uploaded in the same folder, the CP will find the PDF. I think you now have a 'broken link' because of an absolute path reference for the PDF.
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