CS3 Flash Movies in Webpages Problem

Question

I know how to make a generic flash movie player and all that
in flash cs3 with their tutorials/quick import, but i cant quite
seem how to find this:
When you say embed a youtube video to myspace, or online they
don't auto load, instead they seem to have a swf button with the
big play icon sitting there till you hit it, then it loads the
animation and autoplays.
What coding does this? Is there a tutorial?
Someone told me to just do this but didn't know the coding on
how to do it or any tutorials online to do it:
-If you do not want the Flash file to load until a user
clicks on a play button, take a screen capture of the first frame
of your movie.
-Put it on your html page and then make a button that looks
like your play button in the movie.
-Put this button in a DIV and then place the DIV where you
want it on your screen capture image.
-Have this button replace the image with the Movie SWF file.
Basically what you are trying to do is trick the user into
thinking it's the SWF file, but only loading the SWF file when the
user clicks on the fake play button.
Any Ideas?

Answer 1

you should be able to stop the playback of either the swf
file timeline itself or a video - depending on which you are using.
if it on the timeline (a regular swf file) place a - stop(); -
method on the first frame - then place a graphic 'over the top' of
everything that is a button instance - then you would code a
handler for the button, that a) removes the button, and b) calls
the timeline to start using the play(); method.
if you are streaming in a FLV video, you will need to turn
off the autoplay property, and then create a similar button, and
use the play() method of the FLVPlayback component class.
either way it's going to be easier than constructing all that
other stuff and the JS to go along with it.