Windows media playback

[Xstr8guy]

Is there code to put in an embedded .wmv that will stop it from playing automatically? I have a big sample video on a tour page but I don't want it to start playing unless it is clicked. Or is it something that must be done to the video as it's encoded? I'm using Vegas to encode vids.

[Paco]

I assumed this is for the vid on http://www.uknakedmen.com/videos.html (what a hot site, BTW).
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I am somewhat positive all you have to do is add
<param name="AutoStart" value="false">

.. after your
<param name="FileName" value="videos/naked-men.wmv">

I hope that is correct, or that it at the least kick-starts something (uh, idea, thought etc).

If not, you may slap me!

[Xstr8guy]

Thanks for the compliment and tip Paco. It worked in IE but FF still autoplays.

[Servhot]

Thanks for the compliment and tip Paco. It worked in IE but FF still autoplays.

Of course, for mozilla based browsers you have to put it into the embeded code parameters, just a sample below:

<OBJECT id="Windows Media Player" 
	codeBase=http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701 
	type=application/x-oleobject 
	height=582 
	standby="Bitte warten ... Video wird geladen !" 
	width=640 
	align=center 
	classid=clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6>
		<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="http://yoururltothevideo">
		<PARAM NAME="rate" VALUE="1">
		<PARAM NAME="balance" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="currentPosition" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="defaultFrame" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="playCount" VALUE="1">
		<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="-1">
		<PARAM NAME="currentMarker" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="invokeURLs" VALUE="-1">
		<PARAM NAME="baseURL" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="volume" VALUE="75">
		<PARAM NAME="mute" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="uiMode" VALUE="full">
		<PARAM NAME="stretchToFit" VALUE="1">
		<PARAM NAME="windowlessVideo" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="enabled" VALUE="-1">
		<PARAM NAME="enableContextMenu" VALUE="false">
		<PARAM NAME="fullScreen" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="SAMIStyle" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="SAMILang" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="SAMIFilename" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="captioningID" VALUE="">
		<PARAM NAME="enableErrorDialogs" VALUE="0">
		<PARAM NAME="_cx" VALUE="13758">
		<PARAM NAME="_cy" VALUE="11906">
        <embed  type="application/x-mplayer2" 
			pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/" 
			ID="Windows Media Player" 
			align="middle" 
			width="640" 
			height="520" 
  			src="http://yoururltothevideo" 
			autostart="true">
		</embed>
	</OBJECT>