Posted by: Josh Cavalier

This question came up in class the other day, and I thought - why not? It should work...
So I decided t give it a go, and this is what I came up with:

First you have to encode a video as an .FLV with the Flash 8 Video Encoder program

• Open the Flash 8 Video encoder
• Click the Add.. button
• Find the movie you want to encode and add it to the cue
• Click the Settings… button – the Flash Video encoding settings window appears
• Click show advanced settings
• The Video Codec option must be Sorenson Spark! The On2 VP6 only plays in the flash 8 player – remember Captivate only likes Flash 6 (Sometimes Flash 7 content)
• Flash 7 medium quality should do it…
• Click OK to encode the video…
• Now you have your .flv
   
  Creating the Flash movie
• Open Flash 8
• GO down to the property inspector and choose the Settings.. button
• Choose the Flash player 6 button
• Form  the Components panel drag a  Media Player 6-7 / Media playback component
• Open the Components Inspector (Alt+F7) or Window à Component Inspector
• Click the media component on the stage
• In the Component inspector type in the name of the .flv file in the URL text box
• Your .FLV file and the SWF need to be in the same folder!
• Export your .swf File > Publish
• Import your SWF into Captivate

This process has NOT been extensively tested, but it did work in class - and I was a tad bit surprised. Be sure to test the Flash media component functionally from the Captivate generated SWF.