>>Hmmm...I was testing under Win95. I get the same error you're getting when I try it under 98 using the DevCon release of 6.0. I just searched TechNet but came up with nothing. I'll try to look into it more tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.
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>The animation control only works with very simple Animation files.
>It's not meant for displaying movies but for things like the moving
>icons for file copy etc. It's fairly lightweight too and this is
>the reason why.
>
>If you need full AVI capability another option is to use the
>WebBrowser control. It can host AVI easily. There's also another
>MS ActiveX control but I'm not sure which one it is at this point.
>I think it's the ActiveMovie control?
>
>+++ Rick ---

Thanks for the tip Rick! Can it be distributed separately for non-98 users, or would they need IE installed?