Offset into Embeded Flash Movie?

[joby_jones]

Pardon the newbie question. II've searched deeply, and not been able to find
anything useful.

Is there a way to begin playing an embeded flash (e.g. test.swf) animation say
30 seconds into the animation? For example, let's say I have an animation that
last 5 minutes... but for advanced users, I want to skip the first 2 minutes,
and start playing the original 5 minute clip at 2 minutes. (Obviously, in
this simple example I could just have two seperate animations -- but what if I
wanted 10 starting points? 50? 300?)

None of the attributes to the embed tag
([url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tag_attributes.htm[/url]) seem
to do this.

Is there another way?
perhaps some javascript & html magic?

Any and all recommendations appreciated.
Thanks.
--Joby

[rlragona]

If you want the user to be able to skip to an "advanced" area of the
presentation you could simply install a button that skips to a certain frame or
frame label, or even put in a series of bookmarks. I assume you know how to
name a certain frame. (In the prop. inspector)