Play external video in CD-ROM

Hi,
I'm building a flash presentation which will be deployed as a
flash projector (.exe) in a CD.ROM.
I need to play a video (.flv) inside the presentation, which
is stored in a folder next to the .exe. I inserted an instance of
the FLVPlayback component on stage, filled out the parameters, but
can't get it to work!!
After setting the "contentPath" parameter, the component
resizes to the movie size, so I guess it found it... but when I
publish the flash file and test the projector, nothing shows in the
flv player (using relative or absolute paths)
What parameters should I use to make this symbol find the
.flv video? Can someone help me or point me to some tutorial? I
can't seem to find any...
Thanks,
Carlos

Hi,
We have some examples on our website using our tool Jugglor.
Some of the example file on here might help you.
http://www.flashjester.com/index.php?section=faq&cPath=14_53
Good Luck
p.s Just specify the path of the flv
\\flv\\myfile.flv
try this
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