Click to play video

programming flash
1

I’m trying to play an eternal .FLV file on a web page through .swf – all is fine – but can somebody point me in the right direction as to how I can make it appear without automatically playing and have it say “Click here to play” or something like how YouTube, etc have? I don’t want it to begin playing automatically – instead I want it to just appear with the option to play.

Thanks in advance.

2

I’m pretty sure Youtube plays as soon as it opens, but, if you’re using the netstream method, you could always call the pause();.

3

Yes. YouTube does play immediately after loading.

[QUOTE=project107;2325529]I’m pretty sure Youtube plays as soon as it opens, but, if you’re using the netstream method, you could always call the pause();.[/QUOTE]

4

yea i guess you can use the pause function

my_ns.pause(); // pauses play first time issued
my_ns.pause(); // resumes play
my_ns.pause(false); // no effect, play continues
my_ns.pause(); // pauses play

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