How do i stop movie from playing on page load?

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I want to have about 5 different clips on one page but I don’t want them all playing at the same time, which is what happens.

Is there a way of only playing the movie when the visitor clicks play?

Cheerz

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Hey Sykes,
When you right click on a video and select Properties, the Video/Picture Properties dialog box will appear. Select the Video tab. There should be an option for starting a video “On Mouse Over”.

Try that and tell me if it works. If it doesn’t, I’ll try to find some other way to do that.

Cheers!
Kirupa :love:

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i’m in uni at d mo, they’v got fp2000 so the Video/picture property dialogue box didn’t appear…

I’ll have to try it in fp2002 wen i get home…

(but since my website is meant to be fully streamed, I’v decided to link to the videos ratha than embed them within the web pages…)

Tenkoo

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Ah, ok. Then the videos won’t play until the link is actually clicked - good idea =)

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hey kirupa, wot u suggested worked. u c, wen embedding my video i did insert -> advanced controls -> plug-in, so i couldn’t try out the start on mouse-over function.

But wen my brain cell woke up, i realised u meant insert -> picture -> video and then right-click here to alter the properties. I tried it and alas! d dam thing was working.

I may use this as well as linking to the videos so thanks!

P.s. I know making the background properties fixed requires a tiny addition of <i> bgproperties=“fixed”</i> with the body tags but doesn’t fp allow you to do this in normal view (i.e. without having to alter the html?) TIA :beam: