Hello

Please if you have the time. How may I stop mt SWF from preloading the FLV on
webpage. I would like it to only load the FLV when a user hits the play button.
As off now when a user hits my page it starts preloading my 25 meg file.

Thank you for your time
Mark

Not sure what you mean by preloading the FLV. Is it not streaming? If it is, it
is not preloading, it simply loads it instantly and waits to play it.

The simple way to avoid it showing up at all is to not have the swf load onto
the page until they hit a button. Or the code that loads the flv on a second
frame. What kind of file are you using to load the flv?

I am using a SWF to load the Flv and yes I do not want the stream to start
untill the user hits the play button. Here is a link to a test page.
http://www.coosbayspeedway.us/index1.htm

Thank you for your time
Mark

The problem is in my area maybe 35% of the population is still on dial up......
so for them they have to wait for that video to load before the page completely
loads and a lot of times it is the main navigation menu that seems to load last
for them. This is not aceptable.

Thank you for your time
Mark

while I cant simulate dial up speed, I can tell you that I didnt load 26 megs
in 2 seconds. You might want to try commenting out the flv part and see how the
page loads I am also hoping that me bumping this back to the top will make it
so that someone who knows more will see it. from what I understand, if you have
a swf loading the flv, it will not preload. it only has to find the flv and
start the streaming.

Have you tried clicking the component inspector of the FLVPlayback component
within Flash itself then set the autoplay = false?

I think you can also set this settings in the parameters tab beside the
properties inspector