Substituting a still image for FLV

I have FMS2, profile 1, limited to 150 concurrent license
connections.
Question: if user number 151 hits the web page, my video box
will not display the FLV because of concurrent connection limits.
Is there a way to substitute a still image to replace the FLV if
more than 150 concurrect connections are made?

hi,
The answer is yes & no, you cannot show an image directly
in the video object, but you can place an image in a layer above
the video object, you could do this dynamically when the
netconnection is rejected by the server.

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