RTMPS video in Captivate

Having recently upgraded to Captivate 5, I held-out hope that when importing video, the ridiculus lockdown on the address format for linking to video already deployed on a web server (I use FMS) would allow me to manually enter "rtmps://...".
Alas, no luck. Is there any work-around for this? My flash 5 files do playback and import rtmps files as expected. Why does Captivate need to control the parameters of my protocol within the limit of exclusively rtmp or http?
Embeding an SWF to play the video on a slide is possible, though passthrough vars between the Flash SWF and Captivate do not smoothly control playback of both streaming video and sound.
Thanks for any explanation or advice.

Mayank,
I found out what I was doing wrong by reading what was on the screen.
I have a remaining question however.
I inserted my video as a “Multi-Slide Synchronized Video.” The “Distribute video across slides radio button” is checked. Everything works exactly as you would expect except for one thing; Captivate went to the second slide, but how can I make the video continue to play upon entry?
If I use Even Video then I can click the Auto Play checkbox and the video plays upon entry, but then none of the synchronization works.
Thanks for your help.
Frank

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