Make Flash movie autoload

Question

I would like to embed a flash movie on my page but I would need it to autoload from the begining, not only when I reach it through page. I mean, I have a long page and the flash is about in the middle. It plays an animation with sound and I would like it to start itself, not only when I scroll down to it. Is this possible ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Flash movies begin playing immediately on loading in the browser (by default). Just make sure your <object> / <embed> tags don't have the play attribute set to false and that your Flash movie doesn't have a stop() on frame1 or something preventing it from playing...

Answer 2

I have had some cases where the movie won't seem to consistently auto play. I threw together this quick javascript funciton which I call onload to make sure the movie is running:

function LoadMovie(){
var movie = document.getElementById('flash_nav');
if(typeof movie.PercentLoaded() == "function")  //not every browser supports this so check first
 {
if(movie.PercentLoaded() < 100)
    {
        movie.LoadMovie(0, movie.data);    
    }
  }
 }