rocknbil - 4:51 pm on Mar 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

I am not sure exactly what you're doing, but I don't see any indication of how you're setting it to play the .flv.

Generally you create a netstream object (Google for "NetConnection()") to import the video into. You can read how much data has been buffered into the netstream object and set it to start plaing when the buffer is full. This is the whole idea of video imported into Flash, to stream so you get the play- while- download experience.

Check out the various tutorials on the 'net and in the Flash help files. I try to avoid the built-in "video players" packaged with Flash, as they are a little bloated, but it's not that difficult to grow your own player.