imported video.. need to pause on @ beginning

[kade119]

i got the vid n all that i mported just need it to freeze as if it were a thumbnail until clicked the play button.. how do i do this?

[atomic]

Are you using a component, or did you embed the video in the timeline?

If the latter, do you have a stop(); action on the first frame?

[kade119]

using componenet imported w/ wizard .. streaming from webserver.. another thing is there a way to change the damn component after using wizard? thanks for your quick response

[atomic]

Are you talking about the FLVPlayback component?

If so just set the autoPlay parameter (component inspector) to false.

[kade119]

just in the fla file?



then whats the smarts way importing a video into flash? do u use flash encoder much? and last question... is it best to stream from server, if its pretty big in size ?

[atomic]

my_FLVPlayback.autoPlay = false;

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003477.html

[kade119]

okay that keeps the screen black is there a way to have it have a thumbnail of the first frame? or how to give viewer preview w/ an image?

[kade119]

would i do a jpeg on a keyframe before the movie? if so how would i have it move play the next keyframe when the viewer clicks play on the component?

[atomic]

Was afraid I'd have to give it up...

http://www.flashcomguru.com/tutorials/progressive_preview.cfm

[kade119]

but i can't use that in conjunction w/ the media component can i?