How to start the flv player at mute or low volume?

Hi there, been searching for this and found no results so far!

Does anyone know if there is a parameter to set the volume on low or mute, so
that when a web surfer gets to your page he is not shocked out of his chair by
loud music? lol... I want to show a video clip, but give the user the choice on
the volume. Right now it just blares and can be quite disturbing to someone at
work...

I figured it would be something like this...
but it's not...

please help!

<param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="volume" value="mute" />

well that part is easy, you just set the autostart option to "no"...
then they could just press the play button to start it...
my problem is, i want the vid to play, but just with no sound to start...

As far as I can tell the ability to set the default player volume level can
not be set with a "param",
but,
some players do have this functionin. I like this one:
http://flv-player.net/, its open source and free.

it allows you to set the start volume with javascript, something like this:

// modify the start volume
document.getElementById("myFlash").SetVariable("pl ayer:jsVolume", "50");

hope this helps

Jeff



"mbasnes" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi there, been searching for this and found no results so far!

Does anyone know if there is a parameter to set the volume on low or mute,
so
that when a web surfer gets to your page he is not shocked out of his
chair by
loud music? lol... I want to show a video clip, but give the user the
choice on
the volume. Right now it just blares and can be quite disturbing to
someone at
work...

I figured it would be something like this...
but it's not...

please help!

param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" /
param name="salign" value="lt" /
param name="quality" value="high" /
param name="scale" value="noscale" /
param name="volume" value="mute" /

my problem is, i want the vid to play, but just with no sound to start...

IMO that indeed is a problem. Video or audio that plays automatically tells
your site visitor that what you want is more important than what they want.
Chances are you will increase your bounce rate geometrically.
--

Walt


"mbasnes" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

well that part is easy, you just set the autostart option to "no"...
then they could just press the play button to start it...
my problem is, i want the vid to play, but just with no sound to start...

Anyone have any ideas? I looked at that http://flv-player.net/ it's kind of
scary to me, lol.. the site looks like it's translated from some other
language. I already have something that works, (just not how I want it).
Since I'm a newbie I'm afraid to open up a whole can of worms with some
software I don't know... So what would I do anyway?

Not use the dreamweaver menu to "insert flash video" and instead just go into
code view and try to wing it?

So I went to the site, clicked on the choice for "normal", hit download and got
a zip file. I unzipped it into a directory on my desktop, now I have 4 folder
in there and 2 files. I have no idea what to do with them, and there is no
documentation for what to do next. It just assumes you are a programmer and
know what to do next...

well yes... if you want a lot of control there is a price to pay .... don't
give up... experiment a bit, you might surprise yourself a how this stuff is
not as complex as it looks.

If you really don't want to try.... it will even write the code for you, go
here: http://flv-player.net/players/maxi/generator/
loop, autoplay, and autoload .... are all Boolean values 0=false 1= true
volume is a %

Jeff


"mbasnes" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

So I went to the site, clicked on the choice for "normal", hit download
and got
a zip file. I unzipped it into a directory on my desktop, now I have 4
folder
in there and 2 files. I have no idea what to do with them, and there is
no
documentation for what to do next. It just assumes you are a programmer
and
know what to do next...

How cool is that!

ok so it wrote the code which I inserted into my page.. it displays great and
does exactly what I want... the only thing is it loads the player from their
site. How do I get the player onto my site? Being dependent on them would not
be good, if they took it down or changed it, the link would be broken and my
video would not play...

you will need to specify the path to your local player. search the page code
for "http://flv-player.net/medias/player_flv_maxi.swf" and that with the
path to you local media player.
If the media player and your page are both in the same folder or in the site
root, the path would be "player_flv_maxi.swf"

Jeff

"mbasnes" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

How cool is that!

ok so it wrote the code which I inserted into my page.. it displays great
and
does exactly what I want... the only thing is it loads the player from
their
site. How do I get the player onto my site? Being dependent on them would
not
be good, if they took it down or changed it, the link would be broken and
my
video would not play...

As I know, Moyea web player pro can adjust the volume options of
videos on website - http://www.flash-video-mx.com/web-player-pro/
Launch the software, find "Template>>Options>>Skin settings", here
there are "Mute" and "Volume" options for you to be edited. Hope it
can help you.