the purpose of a stand alone player is to play avi movie in a small screen at the beginning of your game,after you publish so when you copy your game to cd, it will play in small screen instead of default A5 full screen, no you don't have to have the stand alone player. a present as far as i know A5 commerical version doesn't need a avi player.

play_moviefile (“filename”);
Starts a full-screen movie sequence (some editions only). Filename is an AVI animation file. It
can™t be played from within a resource file, but must exist as an external file, so the filename
should be given in double qotes instead of angular brackets. During movie play the rendering
and the entity actions will be suspended. The predefined variable movie_frame will contain the
number of the frame currently displayed, or 0 if the movie has come to an end.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dsullinger:
[QB]I don't understand why a outside program would have to be used... I thought the point of the commercial version was that it would play AVI's on it's own?