The tutorials and support of the Longtailvideo website are outstanding in my opinion. If you do struggle however, you may find this article on playlists helpful.
If you can't find examples of playlists at: *http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashFormats#Playlists*, then posting here isn't going to help you.
Thanks lost - I am looking for a basic use of an xml playlist to the right of the player with thumbnails (jpegs), title, description and using .flv locally. The example in the tutorials is using a javascript to create the playlist not quite what I'm looking for.
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