Any way to get the FLV Player to auto-start a Flsh video? I’m using Link to New Window Action to avoid having the video run in the page (we have 4 or 5 video links on each page) and I’d like to find a way to get these to run automatically, as the flash player opens.
Otherwise, I’ll need to do QT - but these are older videos that seem to simply run better and faster, even when converted/compressed, in Flash than in QuickTime (MPEG-4 AVC). They were originally MPEG-2s.
Autostart, borrowing bandwidth and other extensions
You can arrange for your video to begin playing immediately as soon as your web page loads. For Flash Video Player, find the two occurrences of “autoStart=false” in the object block and change “false” to “true”. For FLV Media Player, change “autostart=false” to “autostart=true” where it occurs. The Flash Video Howto
The FLV Player in 5.5 features an autoplay option.
Joe
On 14 Aug 2010, at 07:00, DeltaDave wrote:
Did you get a solution Rick? - I found this
Autostart, borrowing bandwidth and other extensions
You can arrange for your video to begin playing immediately as soon as your web page loads. For Flash Video Player, find the two occurrences of “autoStart=false” in the object block and change “false” to “true”. For FLV Media Player, change “autostart=false” to “autostart=true” where it occurs. The Flash Video Howto
I’m glad the 5.5 version does this, and I appreciate the info from you, Dave. I had perused that piece in detail before, and had reviewed my code. The autostart=false isn’t found specifically, though:
I’ll assume (unless someone tells me otherwise) that “false” under FW_WriteObject refers to the start or stop function in the FLV Player. However, when I change this in TextWrangler and save changes, FW changes it back. I can’t find any way within the application to make this change. Or am I missing something?
This also brings up another issue that is a minor annoyance that I also can’t seem to change, and that is the location of (the video in) a new window (Link To New Window Action). I seem to recall, in FW 3.5, that I could determine the position of a new window (I’m opening a new window with the video in it as a ‘pop-up’) and I can’t seem to do that. Again, changing the values, as shown above, from 0 width / 0 height doesn’t work, as FW changes the values back to 0/0. I suppose the only way around this is to edit raw code on the server, but that means I have to do that every time I upload any changes - very time consuming.
These are niggling changes, but I’d like to be able to do this somehow. Maybe it would be easier to just convert the .flv files to QuickTime, using QT Pro. That’s probably another conversation though.