Click to play video - like Youtube

Question

Creating the FLV file and placing a flash video on a webpage
with the video controls, is easy enough but I need to have an intro
screen.
Something like a 'click to play' frame like Youtube does.
I'm not sure if it is a Jpeg, that you click and it loads the
swf or if it is actually in flash.
I assume it would begin buffering before the use actually
clicks play.
Any ideas ? A tutorial would be great. I can't find anything
on the Adobe.com or Google.

Answer 1

Hi I am not sure how much this will help. I have been wanting
a similar thing and have mocked up the following.
On frame 1have a jpeg image of the player and a click to play
and an image you want behind it (i did it in fireworks and brought
it in) and turn the whole image into a button
Action code for frame 1: (actionscript 3)
stop();
muButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
buttonClickHandler);
function buttonClickHandler (event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(2);
Then have your player on frame 2 with all the relevant code.
This works for me at the moment with one small hitch (cant
get the video to progressivly download bt think thats a problem
with my player code)
Maybe this will help with your problem?