Flash automatic playback

[dream party]

I've dropped a flash video into a page on my site and it loads/plays perfectly but it plays as soon as the page loads. this isn't much of a problem as i'm guessing the solution would mean making a button to play/pause etc but if anyone knows of a simple solution that would be wicked.

the other thing is that the videos i'm playing are only a few seconds each and they play on a loop which is extremely annoying. they are videos I converted to to .swf format using a simple conversion program from an .avi.

I'm hoping its just something simple like changing a 0 to a 1 or true to false in the swfobject code page? any ideas?

[JoshGuerette]

Originally Posted by dream party

I've dropped a flash video into a page on my site and it loads/plays perfectly but it plays as soon as the page loads. this isn't much of a problem as i'm guessing the solution would mean making a button to play/pause etc but if anyone knows of a simple solution that would be wicked.

the other thing is that the videos i'm playing are only a few seconds each and they play on a loop which is extremely annoying. they are videos I converted to to .swf format using a simple conversion program from an .avi.

I'm hoping its just something simple like changing a 0 to a 1 or true to false in the swfobject code page? any ideas?

I don't know how you've embedded it, but try something like:

<param name="autoPlay" value="false" />

or if you're using flashvars, tack on "&autoPlay=false"