Change frame rate using actionscript

[rpt]

Hey folks, I'm a newbie, but with a complicated problem :confused: ,

I'm putting together a CD Rom project in Flash. It's the collection of linear flash animations, little short films, and I'm trying to create menus which will automatically load the external swf animations into the main timeline, the base menu movie.

Problem is, the external swfs, the animations, are of varying size and frame rate. I've solved the size problem (I load them into a movie clip, then use actionscript to resize the movie clip, which resizes the loaded frames as well).Stuck with the frame rate problem.

I am out of touch with the people who created the animations and just have to work with what i've got - no chance of modifying the original .fla files of the animations to help me out with this.

Some of the animations/ external swfs animate at 25 frames per second. Most are 12 frames per second. The base movie/ menu is currently set to 12 fps.

Is there any way of instructing the base movie to temporarily change it's frame rate, so that the loaded swfs will play at the correct speed?

This may not be possible, i've looked around and it seems that once your base swf is loaded, it sets the background colour, size and framerate for everything within the base swf, even if you load a movie into the _root/ layer 0 (which I don't wanna do anyway).

Many thanks, hope someone can give me a definitive yes or no on this,

Rob

[Billy T]

you could use setInterval to play the movies at different speeds

function playMovie(){
holder_mc.gotoAndStop(holder_mc._currentframe+1);
}
playID=setInterval(playMovie,100)//10 frames per second

[rpt]

Thanks Billy T, I'll give it a go.