Captivate/Flash Movie Starts Automatically

I'm learning to use RoboHelp X5 and tried placing an .swf
(Flash movie) that I created with Captivate within my WebHelp. In
Captivate I added a playback control bar (forward, pause, play,
etc.), which works great standalone. However, after generating the
WebHelp, when I view the page that the movie is on, the movie
starts automatically---actually it waits about 8 seconds, but then
just starts. I would expect the person viewing the movie to have to
use the playback control to manually start the movie. Is there an
option somewhere that I need to turn on/off?
Thanks,
John

Hi John and welcome to the community
There are two ways I'm aware of that can be used to
accomplish this.
The first and possibly simplest way is to simply insert a
click box at the very beginning of the movie. By default, click
boxes are configured to pause the movie until the user interacts by
clicking the click box area. Actually, if you are presenting your
movie in .EXE format, I believe this is the only way you can
accomplish it.
The second way is to configure the HTML code used in the HTML
Companion page. Obviously this only works if you are presenting
your movie in .SWF format and using the companion HTML page to
display the movie.
Captivate creates the following code when you create Flash
(SWF) output and select the Export HTML option.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<title>Movie Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<object classid="clsid
27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
width="640" height="480" ID="Captivate1">
<param name="movie" value="MovieName.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="loop" value="0">
<embed src="MovieName.swf" width="640" height="480"
loop="0" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
</object>
</center>
</body>
</html>
If you amend this code by inserting <param name="play"
value="false" /> and play="false", you achieve the goal of
displaying the movie in a "paused to begin with" state.
Amended code is below

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<title>Movie Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<object classid="clsid
27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
width="640" height="480" ID="Captivate1">
<param name="movie" value="MovieName.swf">
<param name="play" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="loop" value="0">
<embed src="MovieName.swf" play="false" width="640"
height="480" loop="0" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
</object>
</center>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps... Rick

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