Read flash movie size from file

hi,
does anybody know how i can read the display size of a flash movie (i can access the movie thru an input stream)? i know flash doesn't have a fixed size but i'm pretty sure it should have something like a default size though.
thakns for help,
marco

You could parse the HTML the flash file is shown in and get it's size.
But I looked through a Flash 4 file I have, and I don't find the size that I know I designed it to be written anywhere in it. It was a quick run-through of the file, though, so I could be wrong. But it would make sense since it's essentially vector graphics, so size isn't important.

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