Recorded games in Flash

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What is the best way to record some gameplay and have it presented using flash?

(I'm not looking for flash techniques, just the means of recording the game in a viable way for internet display)

Has anyone done this? I'm looking to do something similar to what Big Fish Games has on their site to preview the game trailers.

Thanks in advance.

All I mainly see are trailers/video's/etc encoded in the .FLV format, as to which Flash can play natively.

Just need something to encode in said format, and a Flash script to buffer/stream/playback said video, and last I checked (via Google), there are already said Flash scripts programmed for a fee, haven't seem a freebie one yet though.

[EDIT] Here's some more information regarding the FLV format/playback : http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=FLV_Video_Compression

Thanks Genexi2, I'll look into that.

It's actually very simple to take a .avi file and import it into a flash movie and then save it out as a .swf

Here is an example : http://www.indiepath.com/public/1020.swf (160x120 Pixels)

The AVI in this example was recorded using FRAPS.

Ah cool, thanks Tim for the FRAPS reference.

This might also be worth checking out:
http://www.camstudio.org/

I would say the best way is to generate a flv file out of the single frames (which you got out of fraps or snapzpro for instance) and use a swf player which loads and plays the flv file.

Camstudio makes it really easy to record on-screen action, and then lets you convert it to swf format.
And it's free.