Playing non-Captivate videos in FrameMaker PDF & HTML help

Hi everyone,
I looked through the first 17 pages of questions but didn't find anything relating to this.
We want to play avi files and other types of video files by clicking a button in a PDF or HTML help file created with FrameMaker.
Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks
Macgilla

File > Import should bring it in. Import it as an object.
How well this works is likely to vary depending on your environment, but you didn't post any details, so just give it a try...
It also depends on you, and your end user, having the correct players installed.
Art

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