Help with simple AS3 rollover plays flv

hi Folks
I am brand new to AS but am committed to learning it. This is my very first simple project....
I would like an flv on the stage to play back when you roll over an invisible button next to it. I have three layers in the Timeline: a button, a video and an actions layer
I have imported the flv to the stage ("clouds"), and made the button. The code I have so far on the actions layer on frame one is:
clouds_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, playClouds);
function playClouds(event:MouseEvent):void {
play("clouds");
playClouds();
As I understand this: On the first line we define the button instance (clouds_btn); add an event listener to it; describe in the parentheses the parameters: a rollover mouse event triggering the function I have named "playClouds"
Then I write the function: naming, identifying it as a mouse event. The actual function between the curly braces has me stumped and that is as close as I could come by myself. I can't find a list of "actions" anywhere- (play, gotoandPlay, etc) and i am very unclear on the syntax
Then on the last line I call the function, which i *think* is necessary here.
Questions:
Do I need a stop(); anywhere in this code. Why?
Do I need 2 functions (rollOn, rollOff) to make this work?
I am sure the code and my understanding of it needs some real help...
Any hard info, pointers to documentation, online resources, etc. would be great. Its a pretty hard thing to learn on your own......
Thanks!

If you have planted the video along the timeline, then your code should be...
stop(); // to stop the timeline in the first frame
clouds_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, playClouds);
function playClouds(event:MouseEvent):void {
play(); // to play the timeline

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hello,
i'm trying to get a simple preloader and progress bar working
for a swf file. The problem is the main swf. movie starts playing
under preloader before the preloader is finished. So when the
preloader has finished you are already well into the main movie.
(After the movie loops you can see the first part that was missing
during the preload.) This is the AS that i found from a web site
(MonkeyFlash), it is AS 3. Below is the script.
here is a link to the page with the movie:
http://www.aquatichealings.com/new/
Also is it not advisable to use AS3 because it will only work
in Flash 9 and not below and most people may not have 9? Should i
be starting over in AS2. I had built a AS2 in Flash CS3 but had the
same problem.
Please kindly advise on how to make it work correctly. I'd
really appreciate some help, i've gotten books and scoured the web
for different methods and i'm afraid i'm a bit of a numb skull with
Flash and can not seem to get a simple preloader and progress bar
working correctly. THANKS!
gregory
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myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,showContent);
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hi there this is mark from superbooty a band that has played in the bay area for over 10 years...
i was wondering if someone could help me with a Motion2 problem i'm having regarding masks.
i'm working on this simple animated scene of a car going by a beach - the photo is from the passenger side and shows the outside mirror.
i'm moving the background (different from the original that came with the car) and i want to move an image of tokyo inside the mirror housing too.
i figured out how to do the mask but when i try to animate the image of tokyo the mask layer moves with it. when i lock the mask i can't move the image - ???
there's got to be a way to lock the mask but be able to move what it is masking..
here are the links to three images that show what the problem is - the first is
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http://superbooty.com/mirrorbeach1.jpg
http://superbooty.com/mirrorbeach2.jpg
http://superbooty.com/mirrorbeach3.jpg
any help would be most appreciated - thanks!

Adam's solution is the one I'd use - put the mirror contents in a layer, mask the layer, then manipulate the mirror content image. Did this solve it for you - if so, please click on the or buttons over posts as appropriate...
Patrick

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Here is my scenario - I have a flv streaming in a swf. All I
want to do is to is call the cuepoint (event) in the flv, so that
it will go to and play somewhere else further down the timeline of
the swf - I don't think it should require much AS, but I haven't
done much communication of this sort between an flv and it's parent
swf. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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function onCuePoint(infoObject:Object):void
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for (var propName:String in infoObject) {
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else
trace("parameters =");
if (infoObject.parameters != undefined) {
for (var paramName:String in infoObject.parameters)
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