How can I get a loading animation to play while fly playback component loads a file?

Question

Hi team,
Two part question here..
So I have a FLV playback component and a number of .flv files that it loads   ------>  using video1.source="film/whatever.flv";
There is a slight delay while the file loads and so I would like to
A) make this pause a bit longer (it would be so fast at the moment that any loading animation would be subliminal, but with nothing at all you get a second of blank which is not good either- so if I can get it to be a bit longer, like say 2 seconds..
B) have an animation play while this happens..
It does not need to show progress or anything, just like a spinning wheel or whatever.
I have been playing around with bufferTime but not really getting anywhere..
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
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Answer 1

Here is a test with one flv player (video1) and two buttons (butt and butt1)
Ok so I have some code that kind of works using the countdown timer... but I obviosuly dont know why it works because if I change the seconds count down from 1 to 2 it only works once.
I get "working"
         "working"  trace twice and it works
After that I get the "working" trace but nothing happens    ...    I am close but would really like to understand a bit more what I am doing!
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var fl_SecondsToCountDown:Number = 1;
var fl_CountDownTimerInstance:Timer = new Timer(1000, fl_SecondsToCountDown);
video1.visible=false;
video1.load("film/film1.flv");
video1.stop();
butt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, go);
function go(e:MouseEvent){
          video1.visible=false;
          fl_SecondsToCountDown = 1;
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fl_CountDownTimerHandler);
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.start();
    video1.load("film/film1.flv");
butt1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, go1);
function go1(e:MouseEvent){
          video1.visible=false;
          fl_SecondsToCountDown = 1;
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fl_CountDownTimerHandler);
fl_CountDownTimerInstance.start();
          video1.load("film/film2.flv");
function fl_CountDownTimerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void
{trace("working");
          fl_SecondsToCountDown--;
          if(fl_SecondsToCountDown==0){
                    trace("done");
                    playmovie();
                    fl_CountDownTimerInstance.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fl_CountDownTimerHandler);
function playmovie(){
          video1.visible=true;
          video1.play();