Ok.

I have a job where a user can choose 1 each from 4 categories of videos. The video has been shot so that any video from group 1 will segue seamlessly into any video from group 2, group 2 into group 3 etc.

Now, the major problem is that I need to preload all of the .flv files so that playback is also seamless. (South African ADSL speeds would make anyone cry)

My current plan is to have 4 FLVplayer components onstage, one above another. When all are completely loaded, I'll set #1 to play, when it completes it triggers play on #2 and is made invisible.

However, I have seen that apparently the FLVplayer has the ability to chain flv files in a single player (using activeVideoPlayerIndex ) - though I am struggling to make sense of the examples given in the Flash 8 help, and on the net.

Does anyone have a simple example of this chaining effect, and, is it possible to load 100% of every .flv before play starts?

Great news: the getBytesLoaded and getBytesTotal are the sum of all flv files in all player instances within a single FLVplayback component.

So it looks like child's play to preload.