Question about embedding animations

[ronll]

My work has been almost exclusively stills. But I now have a project that needs a short animation, actually just a quick morph. I have no trouble making the .avi. However, it seems there are a lot of variables on playback depending on among other things, what the user is playing it on. Quicktime avi's end on the last frame, but Windows media player reverts to the first frame on ending.

 

Because I can't control what the end user is going to use, is there a way I should be embedding the avi into an .exe? Or should it be putting it into a Director file or VB app or other? How do you distribute an animation to your end users?