Windows media player coding for web pages

[autumn whispers2me]

Okay, I'm piping in a video from www.videocodesforfree.com and want the video to NOT play automatically. I want the visitor to have to push the play button.

How do I configure the code to do this? There is absolutely nothing on their web site about this.

Here's the code:

<div id="playerdiv"><a href="http://www.videocodesforfree.com"><embed style="filter:xray"  name="player" src="http://www.videocodesforfree.com/asx.php?id=474" type="application/x-mplayer2" width="400" height="300" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" loop="true" EnableContextMenu="0" DisplaySize="0" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/"></embed></div><font style="font-size: 10pt;">Music Video code provided by videocodesforfree.com</font></a>

T'anks.

[SpawnDemon]

add "autostart=false"

[autumn whispers2me]

I tried that and it didn't work. All it did was make it so you have to click the stop button, THEN the start button.

Is there a certain place in the code where I need to place that autostart? I put it before "loop.." but that didn't work.

[SpawnDemon]

Try

 <div id="playerdiv"><a href="http://www.videocodesforfree.com"><embed style="filter:xray"  name="player" src="http://www.videocodesforfree.com/asx.php?id=474" type="application/x-mplayer2" width="400" height="300" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" loop="true" EnableContextMenu="0" DisplaySize="0" autostart="false" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/"></embed></div><font style="font-size: 10pt;">Music Video code provided by videocodesforfree.com</font></a>

Make sure there is a space and ""

[autumn whispers2me]

Didn't work.

[SpawnDemon]

I'm all out of Ideas

[Xthar]

to tell you the honest truth i used to kno how to code my own players but i forget now, if i rember ill post back on how to do it

[Fragalot]

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="-thefile-" width=440 height=330 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-20></embed>

that code is the right one.

[autumn whispers2me]

What is the autostart=1 for, Frag? What does the '1' do exactly?

[Fragalot]

if defines that the movie should start from the moment it is loaded.

put a 0 when you don't want that to happen. (so the user has to start it.)