Click to Start screen in online video

[Stampyhead]

I'm creating a web page with a WMV video file on it, and I would like to have it start with a screen that says "Click to Start" and the user clicks on the video itself to start it playing. Anyone know how I would go about doing that with a Windows Media file?

 

[Texas04]

I'm creating a web page with a WMV video file on it, and I would like to have it start with a screen that says "Click to Start" and the user clicks on the video itself to start it playing. Anyone know how I would go about doing that with a Windows Media file?

Make the 1st page be just a picture w/ a screenshot, when they click make it actually go to another page and autostart the movie

or you can do this

<embed src="file.wmv"
autostart="false">
and they can click play to start it?

 

[Stampyhead]

Make the 1st page be just a picture w/ a screenshot, when they click make it actually go to another page and autostart the movie

or you can do this

<embed src="file.wmv"
autostart="false">
and they can click play to start it?

You mean have it go to another HTML page to play? I actually need it to happen within one page. I'm guessing this functionality has to happen within the video file itself, since you one would click on it to make it play. I want it to show without the regular controls, so just pressing "play" isn't really an option. I've seen this done before so I know it's possible.

 

[Texas04]

Maybe like... A page within a page type thing... im not sure of the code but I think something like this can be done in Java... check the web design forum