Flash in blogs

Is there a way to add flash and other movie media to a blog entry - I am sure this used to be possible in v0.9 by adding a flash file to the file store and then "add file" to the entry. But this does not seem to work now (1.5). Does anyone know whether a plugin exists to do this? PS I have  izzp insgtalled which is great for off-site flash (vimeo,etc) but (a) I don't want to stream movies by using ffmpeg on my server as I think this additional load is better put on another box but would like users to be able to upload and view media files - like the MediaGallery did for v0.9 - and download them for display by the browser's plugin.