Javascript controlled video problem

programming flash
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Hi…

Ok, so I know how to control standard SWFs with javascript, I use the following code to do that, with a call to the stopFlash() function that passes in the name of the objectID or embedName of the SWF:

 function getFlashMovieObject(movieName) { 
  if (window.document[movieName])  
  { 
    return window.document[movieName]; 
  } 
  if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")==-1) 
  { 
    if (document.embeds && document.embeds[movieName]) 
      return document.embeds[movieName];  
  } 
  else 
  { 
     return document.getElementById(movieName); 
  } 
} 
 
function stopFlash(movieName) { 
   getFlashMovieObject(movieName).StopPlay(); 
}

But the SWF I’m trying to stop is a streaming video that is located in a placeholder called playback.swf. I can’t stop the stream/video. But I can replace the StopPlay() with Zoom(25) and that will work!

<param name="movie" value="movies/playback.swf?movie=soccer.flv" />

What gives? How do I stop a streaming video when the param value is like this?

thanks for any help,
~hybrid