ns.status Buffer message lags, starts vid before hiding mc

Hi. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get my "buffering" movies to hide before the video plays. When a new video is selected, "blacky" and "bufferText" are set to visible=true. But then the video starts and there is a lag of 10-20 frames before they get triggered to visible=false.

I've played with NetStream.Buffer.Start but that causes other issues.. Any help? Thanks.

Code:

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ns.onStatus = function(info) {
trace(info.code);
  if(info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Full") {
            _root.bufferText_mc._visible = false;
                _root.blacky._visible = false;
  }
  if(info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Empty") {
                  _root.bufferText_mc._visible = true;
                _root.blacky._visible = true;
  }
  if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
      ns.seek(0);
      ns.pause(); 
          blacky._visible = true;
  }
}

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