Mike,

The pink color isn't visible at runtime. You control it from the Animation Control's property sheet. The default settings work fine for me.

with this.oAnimation
   .Open( "C:\Program Files\VS98\Common\Graphics\Videos\FILECOPY.AVI" )
   .Play()
endwith

>>It's not difficult to show AVI files in your forms.
>
>It is difficult though to show a decent one. I think all the good AVIs come up with a pink backgrounbd or somethign when you try and add them to your forms via an ActiveX control.