HTML - <embed> Question

Hi folks,

I have two related questions so I'll ask both in the same post.

My first question is I have a video that I show using the <embed> tag. For example

<embed width="540" height="350" src='../media/movies/police_chief_intro.wmv' autostart=true>

Now, the video plays fine but what I experience is one of the frames near the beginning is displayed first and the video played over top of it. The pain is the image is larger than the video. Another pain is it only really does this in Firefox.

My second question is how do I remove the controls from the video player? I use the same code as above but add controller=false. They don't show in FF and perhaps some others but in Safari they are still displayed.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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I hope this is the correct forum. I have a large swf file that until some of this loads all the user sees is a blank box on the page. What I would like to do is show a gif or jpg there that is small enough to show the control bars of the swf file so the user can see something is going on and then when enough loads they can push play and see the video not the gif.

I wanted to use preloaders but my client says no they want a static gif above the player controls. I have seen this done on other sites but I cannot figure this out. I code in the image with a div tag above the swf embed code using transparent in the embed code and all I see is a blank screen until the movie has downloaded and my controls are gone when it loads.

So I am wondering do I need a transparent title page in the swf so it will show the image or what?

Code where image will go:
(<div id="flashcontent">
This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>
)

Here is my embed code:

(<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("capture3.swf", "mymovie", "640", "480", "8", "#336699");
so.addParam("quality", "low");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addParam("salign", "t");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>)

Thanks!

Why won't it work:

HTML Code:

<object width="300" height="42">
    <param name="src" value="http://platnium.fileave.com/No_More_Memory.mp3">
    <param name="autoplay" value="true">
    <param name="controller" value="true">
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
    <embed src="http://platnium.fileave.com/No_More_Memory.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="300" height="42" controller="true" ></embed>
    </object>

For some reason this code won't work. The black window shows up with controls but the video doesn't play. The filename and directory are correct.


<object id="MediaPlayer" width="200" height="200" classid="22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<param name="FileName" value="gts1.wmv">
<param name="AutoStart" value="True">
<param name="ShowControls" value="True">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="True">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="True">
<param name="AutoRewind" value="True">

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/"
width="200" height="200" src="gts1.wmv"
filename="gts1.wmv" autostart="True"
showcontrols="True" showstatusbar="True"
showdisplay="True" autorewind="Flase">
</embed>