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Hi, I have a blog that I post a new "CTR" to every week. I've embedded a video of President Uchtdorf that autoplays, and I don't want it to. I can't figure out what to take out of the HTML--or add to it--that will stop autoplay. Ideas?

jackandrews wrote:Hi, I have a blog that I post a new "CTR" to every week. I've embedded a video of President Uchtdorf that autoplays, and I don't want it to. I can't figure out what to take out of the HTML--or add to it--that will stop autoplay. Ideas?

That's tough to answer without knowing how you embedded it. Is it the standard YouTube embed? HTML5? Flash? If you include a link to your blog, someone could easily take a look and tell you how to fix it.

If you are using videos from the media library section you just need to add a parameter to the embed. It is:

<param name="autoStart" value="false" />

The videos from the media library are served up using the Brightcove platform. You can read about setting player parameters at: http://support.brightcove.com/en/docs/p ... parameters

The video is from the LDS Media library. It's "Reflection in the Water" by President Uchtdorf. I embedded it in my blog..."asmallandsimplething.blogspot.com".

I added the parameter to a number of different places in the HTML code, to no avail. It still starts automatically. Here's the link:

http://asmallandsimplething.blogspot.co ... bbish.html

Thanks so much!

jackandrews wrote:I added the parameter to a number of different places in the HTML code, to no avail. It still starts automatically. Here's the link:

Thanks for supplying the link. I was able to play with it and find the correct place to add the parameter.

Inside the <object> tag is an <embed> tag. The embed tag has several attributes; one of them is "flashVars". The value of flashVars is a rather long string enclosed in double quotes. Right before the ending double quote you will see dynamicStreaming=true ; you need to add &autoStart=false right after that and before the ending double quote. So the flashvars attribute will then look like:

flashVars="...dynamicStreaming=true&autoStart=false"

where the ... represents the existing value before the dynamicStreaming parameter (when I look at this post, there is a space between the s and the e of "false" but there should be no space there).

In my test this worked fine. Give it a try and see how it works for you.

aebrown...Thank You! That worked great!