Making Movies play with Roll Over

Does anyone know how to make a movie roll over button, that
will start and stop were you left off. here are some examples:
http://www.fabchannel.com
http://www.diddy.com/diddy.php
The buttons are at the bottom.
Thanks so much,
GL

it will basically pause the movie on rollOut and resume on
rollOver.
so YES, it will start and play from where it has
stopped

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