I am using flvplayer.swf player, it is playing the videos,but before playing the video the player has black screen and a play button. When I click the play button the video plays.
Is it possible to show a screen-shot of the video with the play button on top, instead of the blank screen?
This is the code of my player:
<embed
id="fl"
src="flvplayer.swf"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
align="left"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashvars="file=hospitaldemo.swf&autostart=false&frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&backcolor=0x000000&lightcolor=0x996600&showdownload=false&showeq=false&repeat=false&volume=100&useaudio=false&usecaptions=false&usefullscreen=true&usekeys=true"
style="width: 400px; height: 350px">
</embed>
Long Tail offer a free flvplayer called JW Player. This player allows you to specify an image in the flashvars - whether a given player allows an image to be specified is very much down to the individual API.
In the case of JW Player, you would set:
http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player5FlashVars