Load movie in a masked clip

Hi,
when I try to load a movie in a masked movieclip/placeholder
the clip
isn't loaded. When I check for getBytesTotal() it still is 18
bytes like
the paceholder. When I put the mask away the clip is loaded.
Can I have both?
TIA

Just read your post in google groups, for some reason I can't
see it on
the newsgroupserver.
The problem ist that is just not loaded when there is a mask
on it. It
is just ignored without any error message or anything. Have
done it
without a mask now. Seems to be a bug or something.

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