jpg click to load flv replacing jpg - HTML Forums

amarjeet · 08-30-2009, 03:28 PM

i have a flv movie on my webpage.
it plays when you click on it.

prob is that its black when the page loads since the first frame of the movie is black.

i wanted to counter this by creating a jpg of same size which displays instead of the movie. visitor's would have to click on the jpg to then see the movie.

how can this be acheived??? css?

Sawtooth500 · 09-04-2009, 11:17 PM

I'm not sure how you'd do this exactly but the approach I'd use would be setting a keyframe in the video and then that frame is what should display when the video is not playing - that would be a better solution than swapping it out with a .jpg

anbushinji · 11-09-2009, 12:44 AM

Code:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="480" height="360"><param name="flashvars" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.walkernews.net/mediaplayer.swf" /><embed src="http://www.walkernews.net/mediaplayer.swf" width="480" height="360" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="file=http://www.walkernews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/LionLove.flv&image=http://www.walkernews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/Lion-Hug-Rescuer.JPG" /></object>

thats the code for doing that you use &image and &skin to mod the flash player
i reccomend geting the jw player puting in on your server and also get one of their free skins and then just input your data into the code.