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I'm inserting a SWF into my Captivate presentation. The SWF calls and displays external videos using AS3. The SWF runs fine outside of Captivate, however, when I insert and play the Captive project the SWF doesn't call the videos. Any ideas?
Thanks
//Here is the AS3 code I'm using to call the videos in my SWF.
dvd2_butt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onDVD2);
function onDVD2(event:MouseEvent):void
addChild(dvd2video);
dvd2video.visible = true;
dvd1video.visible = false;
dvd1Highlight.visible = false;
dvd2Highlight.visible = true;
videoStream.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
function asyncErrorHandler(event:AsyncErrorEvent):void
trace(event.text);
dvd2video.attachNetStream(videoStream);
videoStream.play("Hippo_Dog1.flv");
dvd2video.x = 354.00;
dvd2video.y = 234.55;
dvd2video.width = 256.50;
dvd2video.height = 195.95;
//Loop;
videoStream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, videoListener);
function videoListener(e:NetStatusEvent)
if (e.info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Empty")
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Great! There are other Flash instances that do not work until published also. Could you mark the answer as correct so that others may benefit.

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