On Load Pausing Progressive Flash Video

[JSammon512]

Hey Everyone,

I've been trying to work out this issue for the last hour and can't seem to figure it out.

I encoded a video, imported it into flash (progressive) and applied a player control to the bottom. In the publish preferences I've set the thing to pause upon loading but it still plays. You can see in the code that the play is set to false. Any idea why it's still playing upon loading of the page. Check it out:

http://www.zangcenter.com/test/

Many thanks in advance,
John

[dan_hin]

so are you saying you've set autoplay to false?

[JSammon512]

Yes I have. You can see that in the code. Every instance of play is equal to false:

<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0',
'width', '320',
'height', '300',
'src', 'zstreaming',
'quality', 'high',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'false',
'loop', 'false',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'zstreaming',
'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
'name', 'zstreaming',
'menu', 'false',
'allowFullScreen', 'false',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'zstreaming',
'salign', ''
); //end AC code
}
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="320" height="300" id="zstreaming" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="zstreaming.swf" /><param name="play" value="false" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="zstreaming.swf" play="false" loop="false" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="320" height="300" name="zstreaming" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

[rdoyle720]

The "play" option in the HTML doesn't affect videos. If you click on the video component in your Flash file, the Properties panel should have an option that says "autoPlay" (or something similar). Set that to false.

[dan_hin]

you took the words right out of my mouth...
Dan

[JSammon512]

That worked guys! Thanks.

The picture sits on the page as a black screen. Any way to take a snapshot and display it on there like youtube instead of having it just black?

many thanks in advance!

[dan_hin]

yes....

What you'll need to do is save a frame of the video (or depending on the length, a series of frames as an animated gif) and put that in the first frame of the swf. when the user clicks on the swf, you "gotoAndPlay(2)" which will run your video.

Dan