# Flash 8 video, adding 10 second delay before playing?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-video-adding-10-second-delay-before-playing/241409>\
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**Created:** [October 13, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-video-adding-10-second-delay-before-playing/241409 "2007-10-13T14:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-video-adding-10-second-delay-before-playing/241409/1 "2007-10-13T14:14:36Z")

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Hi, I followed a tutorial and created a flash video player for my reel. I want it to say preloading or buffering for 5 seconds before the video starts playing. Can someone tell me how I would go about coding this? Here is the reel:  
[http://motioncrush.com/reel/reel2.html](http://motioncrush.com/reel/reel2.html)

Thanks