# Loading an .flv from an imported .swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-flv-from-an-imported-swf/328683>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 6, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-flv-from-an-imported-swf/328683 "2012-06-06T01:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![wongmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea5d25/32.png) [@wongmo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wongmo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-an-flv-from-an-imported-swf/328683/1 "2012-06-06T01:26:00Z")

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I’m trying to load an .flv from a child .swf of the main clip. The child .swf has a line like this:

myVideo.source = “flvs/planets.f4v”;  
myVideo.skin = “TransSkin.swf”;

On its own it works fine, but obviously once it gets imported into the main movie it breaks. The problem is that if I change the path to what it will be once it gets imported, it won’t export. Is there a simple way around this, or am I missing some fundamental point? Thanks in advance for any help.