[CS3] Preload Clickable capture for a FLV file?

[Loeryn]

Ok so I probably could find a tutorial for this if I even knew what it was called, but I don't so I am posting here.

A company recently wanted me to post a whole bunch of flash videos on one page for them. Being primarily a photoshop designer, I quickly made some FLV files form AVI's and stuck them up there with a standard playback control skin and set them to autoplay false. Recently the company said they are concerned about bandwidth. The videos haven't been posted yet and I had two questions.

1.
If a video is set to progressive download from a web server but the autoplay is off, will the video begin to download the moment the page is viewed, or will the video only begin to download when the play button is clicked?

2.
How do you create a system like Revver has in place (see any video on loadingreadyrun.com) where the flash file loads a still thumbnail then ceases to load until the thumbnail is clicked? This is especially important if #1 consumes bandwidth all the time.

Thanks for your help, I just didn't know where to look.

[EvolveDesigns]

check out this tut:
http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2006/12...duration-time/

the 'example with metadata' one specifically

good luck!

[MrSteel]

thanks for linking my blogpost
there is example on blog of taking first frame of video as a thumbnail
I think only Opera is causing some problems with it

about onMetaData event and getting FLV duration PHP method is really better
sometimes onMetaData is not fired fast, sometimes because of bandwidth usage for video you don't recieve meta data on time to start displaying loaded percent and video time

in PHP you first get file duration and then pass it to the play