Pause Main Movie while external FLV is streamed

Hey i was wondering if it's possible to pause the main movie,
while - through the flv playback component - an external flv is
beeing streamed. once the flv-video has played through the main
video should continue playing.
is that possible? if so, can anybody show me how?
thx in advance
Phil

If all of your assets are on the main timeline of the swf
(i.e. you don't need to stop specific MovieClip instances--just the
main timeline), then it's not too hard. You just need to issue a
stop() action when you want to "pause" the main timeline. I don't
know your setup, so you might want to pause while the video is
buffering, or when the user clicks the play button (it seems to me
that you'd just put a stop() action on the frame where your
FLVPlayback component lives, right?). Then, listen for the
"complete" event to fire from the FLVPlayback component to resume
playback. Before I can offer some sample code, can you tell me
which version of the FLVPlayback component you're using? AS2 or
AS3?

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