[thelist] Re: Deploying Video with Flash

[Diane Soini]

On Monday, August 16, 2004, at 04:07 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>
> In fact it wasn't a preloader, but a simple button to click which then
> loaded in the video .swf in, but this still left a long pause before 
> the
> video would play, so there is definitely some bug there.
>
I wonder if you could fake a preloader with an animated gif in a 
hidden, positioned div that shows onclick of the play button, then 
hides when the flash movie is finally playing.

> Rich Osborne.
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