How can I use flashvars to make movie play when loaded

I just tried using autoPlay=true in the Flashvars field in Advanced flash node options and the movie does not play. The only way I can make it play is to change the option in SWF Tools, but then ALL movies on my site will autoplay, which is not what I want to do.

Any other ideas ?

No I didn't but I have just now and it shows:

<div class="content"><div class="swftools-wrapper swftools-swf "><div id="swfobject2-id-12183784561" class="swftools swfobject2" swftools='{ "swliveconnect": "default", "play": "false", "loop": "false", "menu": "false", "quality": "autohigh", "scale": "showall", "align": "l", "salign": "tl", "wmode": "opaque", "bgcolor": "#FFFFFF", "version": "7", "allowfullscreen": "true", "base": "http://mydomain.com/drupal/files/", "src_path": "files/flash/mymovie.swf", "src": "http://mydomain.com/drupal/files/flash/mymovie.swf", "height": 637, "width": 807, "flashvars": "" }' >
<p>You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.</p></div></div><p>some text</p>
</div>

As you can see the SWF Tools options are included, but flashvars are empty.

I just disabled SWF Tools so that Flash Node will be able to control how the movie is played on its own. Now, the movie is played automatically because there is no way to specify that I want movies to normally be loaded and not played. I therefore tried to configure Flashvars to stop the autoPlay, e.g. using autoPlay=false. This didn't work either because the movie still plays when loaded :-( I checked the HTML source and found:

<param name="flashvars" value="autoPlay=false" />

I think it might be useful to get this working without any SWF Tools involvement, and then I can find out of the same works when SWF Tools is re-enabled. Can somebody help me fix the flashvars ?

Are you suggesting that I need to change the Flash Node code so that it does not put " around the flashvars, and therefore uses name=flashvars instead of name="flashvars" ? If so, do you know where I can find the code which does this ?

I tried with a different swf movie that was created by somebody else, just in case this was not working because of something in the swf file. When I load the page the movie plays and I have specified autoplay=0 and I also tried autoplay=false and autoPlay=false. None of them stop the movie playing when it loads :-(

Here is the html:

<div class="content"><div class="flashnode"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="800" height="600" id="myMovieName"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://mydomain.com/drupal/files/flash/bigtopr.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="flashvars" value="autoplay=0" /><param name="base" value="/drupal/files" /><embed src="http://mydomain.com/drupal/files/flash/bigtopr.swf" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" quality="high" width="800" height="600" flashvars="autoplay=0" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" base="/drupal/files" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object></div></div>

Am I the only person getting this problem ? If so, what I am I doing differently to others ?

Stuart,

Thankyou for the very helpful response. I will do some more tests using the feedback you have provided and let you know if I need any more help - probably tomorrow.

Thanks again,
Tim

I am using the 6.x-1.x-dev version of SWF Tools, and it seems like it is working with Flash Node (as you suggested it would). I have also been able to use the <swf file="bigtopr.swf" play="false"> syntax that you suggested to embed movies which I don't want to start automatically, and when I do want them to start automatically I either use play="true" or use Flash Node content which takes the default configured in SWF Tools.

I look forward to the future versions of both modules with extra functionality - looks like I can continue with my testing with the current versions though.

Thankyou for your great support, and for some very useful modules.

Stuart,

I couldn't find a zip/tar of the HEAD version so I downloaded each file one at a time from CVS, installed, ran the 6001 update and it works as you suggested. Thankyou again for the great support, and thankyou for making this change quicker than expected. It is very useful.

Regards,
Tim