Flash Video help

[westy2005]

Hi everyone,
I am making some videos that will be displayed on my website and on the link to this page I would like to display the latest video, however I do not want it to play automatically as you load this page.
An example of what I mean is at http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/video/ you get a nice big play button on the video and then it plays video when clicked not just because you are on the video page.
What I have been doing is importing the video through Flash 8, choosing the streaming option and a skin from the options. (there is no skin with the play button over the video).
When I publish my videos like this it plays them automatically as the page loads.
I have seen loads of examples like the channel 4 one but I have no idea how to do it, please could anyone help with tutorials, .fla or anything you think will help. Thanks in advance.

[atomic]

You need to set the autoPlay parameter (component's properties...) to false, and add a button movie clip over your playback component. When this button movie clip is pressed, it starts the player, and makes itself invisible...

[westy2005]

Thank you very much for your help, will try it out now.

[westy2005]

sorry atomic.... I have changed the properties on the components which now works fine but I can't work out how to make the movie clip button, what action script it will need or whether I need to make a button in the movie clip symbol?? Sorry to be a pain!! Thank you.

[atomic]

Attach your .fla to this forum...

[westy2005]

Thank you for your time atomic, .fla is attached. Hopefully I have attached it right, let me know if any probs.

[atomic]

Ok, here are the mods...

Added a big play button mc.
Gave your player the instance name of flvPlayback.
Set the autoPlay parameter to false.
Added a listener, so that when the video completes, the big play button is visible again...

Watch it, I've changed your Publish Settings to where the .swf was saved... So you might want to change that back to where you were saving it...

[westy2005]

Thank you so much! That is perfect, I really appreciate it. :):)

[atomic]

Grrrrrrrrreat! ;)

[candice7683]

Hi everyone,
I am making some videos that will be displayed on my website and on the link to this page I would like to display the latest video, however I do not want it to play automatically as you load this page.
An example of what I mean is at http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/video/ you get a nice big play button on the video and then it plays video when clicked not just because you are on the video page.
What I have been doing is importing the video through Flash 8, choosing the streaming option and a skin from the options. (there is no skin with the play button over the video).
When I publish my videos like this it plays them automatically as the page loads.
I have seen loads of examples like the channel 4 one but I have no idea how to do it, please could anyone help with tutorials, .fla or anything you think will help. Thanks in advance.

i found a guide,maybe it can help u.

For playing on websites, you have many choices, such as FLV, SWF, and HTML, or WMV, AVI (as YouTube accepts).

WMV and AVI files are much larger in size, so here we are using FLV, SWF, and HTML.

There are many converters which can convert home videos into those formats. Here we introduce you Moyea Flash Video MX Pro.

It can generate Flash movie (SWF) as the FLV player embedded in an HTML page for easier sharing and promotion.


full guide:Publish Flash Videos in Your Personal Home Page (http://www.video-to-flash.com/create_flash_video/)

[atomic]

Sounds like disguised spam to me!

[candice7683]

Sounds like disguised spam to me!

oh,mg.How can you say this ? I just feel that maybe help you.:confused:

[atomic]

Anything you say my dear!