I've had a similar prob please let me know what you find.

>I'd like to add an AVI to a form as an OLE object. That
>part is simple. However, what I'd like it to do is not,
>and I'm hoping someone else has done this before and
>can help me with it.
>
>I want the AVI to play continuously as a backgrounded
>process. That means that the AVI bar (stop, play, pause
>etc.) buttons should now show, and that the AVI should
>continue to play even when the user is doing something
>else on the form, like filling in a text box.
>
>So far, my experimental efforts have yielded the
>information that I can issue a DoVerb("play") on the
>OLE object, and the AVI will play, but as soon as I
>click on another object, it stops playing. And I can't
>get it to repeat, even if I leave everything else alone.
>
>Help?
>
>--Liz