How to make an embedded video not autoplay

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I m embedding a Flash video into an HTML and would like the user to have to click it to begin playing  According to the Adobe  lt object gt     lt embed gt  element documentation  there are variety of methods to do this   1  Add a Flash parameter inside the  lt object gt  tag    lt param name  play  value  false  gt    2  Add the attribute play inside the  lt embed gt  tag    lt embed     play  false  gt    3  Add the attribute flashvars inside the  lt embed gt  tag    lt embed     flashvars  play false  gt    Which is awesome  Only     none of them work for me   http   johnboxall github com test flash flash htm  My code looks like this now    lt object width  590  height  475  gt       lt param name  movie  value  untitled skin swf  gt       lt param name  play  value  false  gt       lt embed src  untitled skin swf  width  590  height  475  type  application x-shockwave-flash  play  false  flashvars  autoplay false amp play false  menu  false  gt  lt  embed gt   lt  object gt    Anyone have any ideas  What am I doing wrong

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fenomas s answer was really good   it got me off of looking into the HTML code  I know that jb was looking for something that works in Captivate  but the question is broad enough to include people working out of Flash  I m using CS5   so I thought I d throw in the specific answer to my situation here   If you re using the stock Adobe FLVPlayback component in Flash  you probably are if you used File   Import   Import Video      there s an option in the Properties panel  under Component Parameters  Look for  autoPlay  and uncheck it  That ll stop autoplay when the page loads

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I had the same problem and came across this post  Nothing worked  After randomly playing around  I found that  lt embed          play  false  gt  stopped it from playing automatically  I now have the problem that I can t get a controller to appear  so can t start the movie   S

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A couple of wires are crossed here  The various autoplay settings that you re working with only affect whether the SWF s root timeline starts out paused or not  So if your SWF had a timeline animation  or if it had an embedded video on the root timeline  then these settings would do what you re after   However  the SWF you re working with almost certainly has only one frame on its timeline  so these settings won t affect playback at all  That one frame contains some flavor of video playback component  which contains ActionScript that controls how the video behaves  To get that player component to start of paused  you ll have to change the settings of the component itself   Without knowing more about where the content came from it s hard to say more  but when one publishes from Flash  video player components normally include a parameter for whether to autoplay  If your SWF is being published by an application other than Flash  Captivate  I suppose  but I m not up on that  then your best bet would be to check the settings for that app  Anyway it s not something you can control from the level of the HTML page   Unless you were talking to the SWF from JavaScript  and for that to work the video component would have to be designed to allow it

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I had the same problem and came across this post  Nothing worked  After randomly playing around  I found that  lt embed          play  false  gt  stopped it from playing automatically  I now have the problem that I can t get a controller to appear  so can t start the movie   S

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fenomas s answer was really good   it got me off of looking into the HTML code  I know that jb was looking for something that works in Captivate  but the question is broad enough to include people working out of Flash  I m using CS5   so I thought I d throw in the specific answer to my situation here   If you re using the stock Adobe FLVPlayback component in Flash  you probably are if you used File   Import   Import Video      there s an option in the Properties panel  under Component Parameters  Look for  autoPlay  and uncheck it  That ll stop autoplay when the page loads

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Try replacing your movie param line with   lt param name  movie  value  untitled skin swf amp autoStart false  gt

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Try replacing your movie param line with   lt param name  movie  value  untitled skin swf amp autoStart false  gt

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A couple of wires are crossed here  The various autoplay settings that you re working with only affect whether the SWF s root timeline starts out paused or not  So if your SWF had a timeline animation  or if it had an embedded video on the root timeline  then these settings would do what you re after   However  the SWF you re working with almost certainly has only one frame on its timeline  so these settings won t affect playback at all  That one frame contains some flavor of video playback component  which contains ActionScript that controls how the video behaves  To get that player component to start of paused  you ll have to change the settings of the component itself   Without knowing more about where the content came from it s hard to say more  but when one publishes from Flash  video player components normally include a parameter for whether to autoplay  If your SWF is being published by an application other than Flash  Captivate  I suppose  but I m not up on that  then your best bet would be to check the settings for that app  Anyway it s not something you can control from the level of the HTML page   Unless you were talking to the SWF from JavaScript  and for that to work the video component would have to be designed to allow it

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A couple of wires are crossed here  The various autoplay settings that you re working with only affect whether the SWF s root timeline starts out paused or not  So if your SWF had a timeline animation  or if it had an embedded video on the root timeline  then these settings would do what you re after   However  the SWF you re working with almost certainly has only one frame on its timeline  so these settings won t affect playback at all  That one frame contains some flavor of video playback component  which contains ActionScript that controls how the video behaves  To get that player component to start of paused  you ll have to change the settings of the component itself   Without knowing more about where the content came from it s hard to say more  but when one publishes from Flash  video player components normally include a parameter for whether to autoplay  If your SWF is being published by an application other than Flash  Captivate  I suppose  but I m not up on that  then your best bet would be to check the settings for that app  Anyway it s not something you can control from the level of the HTML page   Unless you were talking to the SWF from JavaScript  and for that to work the video component would have to be designed to allow it

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A couple of wires are crossed here  The various autoplay settings that you re working with only affect whether the SWF s root timeline starts out paused or not  So if your SWF had a timeline animation  or if it had an embedded video on the root timeline  then these settings would do what you re after   However  the SWF you re working with almost certainly has only one frame on its timeline  so these settings won t affect playback at all  That one frame contains some flavor of video playback component  which contains ActionScript that controls how the video behaves  To get that player component to start of paused  you ll have to change the settings of the component itself   Without knowing more about where the content came from it s hard to say more  but when one publishes from Flash  video player components normally include a parameter for whether to autoplay  If your SWF is being published by an application other than Flash  Captivate  I suppose  but I m not up on that  then your best bet would be to check the settings for that app  Anyway it s not something you can control from the level of the HTML page   Unless you were talking to the SWF from JavaScript  and for that to work the video component would have to be designed to allow it

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Try adding these after  lt Playlist gt    lt AutoLoad gt false lt  AutoLoad gt   lt AutoPlay gt false lt  AutoPlay gt

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Try adding these after  lt Playlist gt    lt AutoLoad gt false lt  AutoLoad gt   lt AutoPlay gt false lt  AutoPlay gt

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