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Start and then Pause Embedded Media Player

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Krus1972

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Mar 18, 2004
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I have the following HTML which loads an embedded media player:

<EMBED SRC="/01.mp4" HEIGHT=530 WIDTH=850 AUTOSTART="false">

What I would like to do is at onload I would like the mediaplayer to autoplay and then immediatly pause until the visitor enables play again.

The purpose of this is that I believe media player continues to download the file after the play button / and puase is pressed.

I don't believe the media file starts downloading until the play button is pressed. This doe not allow the downloading to stay ahead of the video watching experience resulting in starting & stoping of the video.

Can someone tell me if it's possible in javascript to tell the browser to start playing the media after the webpage loads and then pause it a short time later?

Thanks
 
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