Autoplay Flash Videos?

The Webmistress

Joined: 2007-03-20
Posts: 97
Posted: Tue, 2007-04-17 13:48

Hi,

My flash player works great but I would like to eliminate all the extra clicks to play the video .. I would like it to start playing as soon as the page is loaded.

Example:
http://ishotit.tv/Heat/main.php?g2_itemId=927 - you have to click 2 or 3 times to get the video to start. The image you see at the beginning is a jpg i uploaded as a background image so the user at least knows something is there. Otherwise, the page was blank and if the user doesn't happen to run their mouse over the video area, they wouldn't know it's there.

Also, is there a way to change the mouseover text.. "Click activate..."?

Thanks,
Annie


Gallery version = 2.2.1 core 1.2.0.1
PHP version = 4.4.1 apache
Webserver = Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/0.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/4.4.1 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7g
Database = mysqlt 4.0.16, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = NetPBM, Gd, ImageMagick, Thumbnail, Ffmpeg
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = FreeBSD host543.ipowerweb.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed Apr i386
Default theme = classic
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Windows-Media-Player/10.00.00.3990)

Annie
http://www.ishotit.tv

 
suprsidr
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Joined: 2005-04-17
Posts: 8339
Posted: Tue, 2007-04-17 21:23

@Click to activate http://gallery.menalto.com/node/61982
As for autoplay, at least one iteration had it, but apparently not the current release.
I will try to get it into dp as soon as I get back from my honeymoon end of april :)
current external vars are listed here - http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:flashvideo
-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

 
The Webmistress

Joined: 2007-03-20
Posts: 97
Posted: Wed, 2007-04-18 13:33

Thanks so much suprsidr, I appreciate it.

And congrats, have a great time on your honeymoon! ;)

Annie
http://www.ishotit.tv