Does this method have any advantages over using construct's built-in sprite animation capabilities?

Indeed. Though what I was attempting to do here was use a small looped video segment as a background for a main menu of sorts.

Seeing that I can run an swf file makes me wonder if I could possibly build the menu in flash, and embed that to serve as the main menu. Then all I need to do is figure out how to make it communicate with construct...

That sounds/sounded like a great idea.

I may be doing this wrong, but when I attempt to use the texture setter plugin to give a sprite the texture of an AVI Object, I get a runtime error on application start,

"Construct encountered an error in the display engine. Please report this problem to the application developer."

"Cannot set a multisampled rendertarget as texture (0x80004005)"

It may just not be possible using this method. Still, many thanks for the suggestion, it was a good idea.

I just noticed R0J0hound's reply. It looks like I do not have the capability to do this at the moment.

Thanks to the both of you for taking the time to confirm this for me at least.

I've looked around for a while and as far as I can tell, there is no way to play a video in construct classic without it rendering on top of all other elements.

I have tried the python methods proposed by R0J0hound as well as the built-in AVI Object.

I thought I would check here though, to confirm that no one has found a solution yet to this problem.

According to the construct classic wiki, a solid object will only prevent other objects that have behaviors such as the "platform" or "8 direction" behaviors on them from passing through each other.

sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php

Unless I am missing something, your red and green objects are both marked as solid, however neither of them have the "platform" or "8 direction" behaviors added to them.

I can't post hyperlinks so you will need to copy and paste that link manually.

1. Be sure to center your hotspot on your Player sprite.

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/2tVjy.png" border="0" />