flash-autoplay

Flash: How to make an embedded video not autoplay

I'm embedding a Flash video into an HTML and would like the user to have to click it to begin playing. According to the Adobe <object> / <embed> element documentation, there are variety of methods to do this: 1) Add a Flash parameter inside the <object> tag: <param name="play" value="false"> 2) Add the attribute play inside the <embe...

How can I make a SWF autoplay in the profile box of a facebook application?

I want my SWF to autoplay in a Facebook profile box. I am currently using an FBML based app but I am open to using any type that would make this easy. Using the param waitforclick=false does not work in the profile box so this is not an option. At first I thought this would not be possible without using an AJAX request (that is what th...

Is it possible to auto-play .flv or .f4v file using SWFObject v2.2?

I am using SWFObject v2.2 http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ to play swf/flv files. I have tried two different SWFObject files to auto-play same .flv file. Auto-play is not working in case of "SWFObject V2.2 but it worked when I used "SWFObject v1.4.4: Flash Player detection and embed - I can not use "SWFObject v1.4.4" because ther...

Firefox/Flash won't Autoplay on AJAX load unless page is visible

I have a music site that uses a flash program to play music. When a song is done playing, the flash program uses getUrl to call a JavaScript (jquery) function that reloads part of the page using AJAX. It reloads the part of the page where the flash player is, which then selects and starts the next song. Everything works fine in IE and C...