Video streaming in Flash

flash

I am using Flash CS4 to develop a web page based on Flash. I have a requirement to show videos within the Flash page. The videos can be of type .swf, .wmv. Does Flash has capability to include another .SWF or .WMV file as embedded video viewer. Appreciate any thoughts.

Addition:
If I have .fla file, can I embed .flv file inside .fla file so that a video can be played within .fla (binary .swf) file?

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SWF is not a video format, it is the flash binary file, so it can be read by flash and can load another swf.

WMV is the Window Media Video developed by Microsoft and can not be embedded within flash.

So in flash you can read the video with the format of FLV (codec sorenson spark, on2 vp6) or MP4 (codec H264).

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Imagine if there was no img tag. If you want images, you have to use a 3rd party plugin, that is really slow and has no standard way to embed it in a page. You can't easily copy images in this way, and search engines basically have no clue what if it's an image or a game or anything.

Without this, no images were available.

Then imagine that a browser was released that just let you use this fancy new img tag.

The video (and audio) tag are a logical sensible way for things to work. We shouldn't need a third party plugin to use a completely standard media format.

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Did you try loading it with Loader class? I guess YouTube's crossdomain would allow it to be loaded from anywhere.

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