TotalFrames of dynamically loaded swf

I've been trying for 2 days now to find the total number of frames of a dynamically loaded .swf.
Here's an example code:
var loader:Loader = new Loader;
loader.load(new URLRequest("mop.swf"))
master_mc.addChild(loader);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoadedF);
function xmlLoadedF(event:Event):void
trace(loader.content.totalFrames);
I am truly puzzled.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think this might be complicated by loading an AS2 movie into an AS3 document.
The error message is telling you that there is no totalFrames property and in fact AS2 movies would have a _totalframes property.
So you could try that.
Also I'm not sure if event.currentTarget.content returns a MovieClip or a DisplayObject. If it is a DisplayObject (which is most likely) then it too wouldn't have totalFrames property. So you might need to cast it as a MovieClip. Something like this:
MovieClip(event.currentTarget.content).totalFrames
And or it could be some combination of these two above issues? I don't know really, I'm just grasping at straws. But I don't see any way to know when a clip is done playing other than to compare its currentFrame to totalFrames.

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