# Videos in sprite containers not displaying?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/videos-in-sprite-containers-not-displaying/249590 "2008-01-20T16:46:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/videos-in-sprite-containers-not-displaying/249590/1 "2008-01-20T16:46:36Z")

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Hi all! I’m generating a bunch of thumbnail videos that should have various mouse reactions. Since the Video class doesn’t dispatch mouse events I put the videos in sprite containers:

```auto

private function makeVideo(src:String):void {
	videos.push(new Object);
	var this_index:uint = videos.length - 1;
	var this_container:Sprite = videos[this_index].video = new Sprite();
	
	var this_stream:NetStream = videos[this_index].stream = new NetStream(connection);
	this_stream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
	this_stream.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
	
	var this_video:Video = new Video();
	this_video.attachNetStream(this_stream);
	this_video.smoothing = true;
	
	resizeThumb(this_container, thumb_width_max, thumb_height_max);
	this_container.x = this_index * (thumb_width_max + 50) + 50;
	this_container.y = 200;
	
	this_container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, vidClick);
	this_container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, vidOver);
	this_container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, vidOut);
	
	videos[this_index].src = src;
	this_stream.play(src, 2);
	
	this_container.addChild(this_video);
	addChild(this_container);
	
}

```

…but nothing shows up, and mouse movements over the area where they should be don’t generate any events. What am I missing? I had the videos displaying fine before I tried putting them in containers, they just couldn’t react to mouse events. For the record, the videos[] array is just a reference array of objects. I don’t think that’s interfering, but … Thanks in advance!

–Ted