Can't get movies not to Autoplay

If you are simply dragging the movies onto the iWeb page then autoplay is dealt with in the QuickTime inspector.

If you are having problems, try using the embed tag in an HTML Snippet...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/QT-Embed.html

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Auto-play and loading are not the same.

QuickTime movies always load.

But you have to check Auto-play to play them while loading.

The info on the linked page is 100% nonsense and a waste of time too.

Update :

Here's a page made with the Save for Web/Export for Web with QT 7/QT X :

http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/FloatingObjects/

QT 7 and QT X have different ways of doing it, but the output is the same.

The movie doesn't load and only loads and plays when you click the button in the center.

Follow the instructions in the ReadMe.html when you have exported to Web with QuickTime.

Then use the sample page of the link above to paste the code provided in the ReadMe file QT create. Replacing the code in my page.

Use the <iframe> HTML element to display the movie in a iWeb page with the HTML Snippet.

Here's a page that explains how to do it .

http://www.wyodor.net/iWebBlogTest/Wyodor_1/archives/2009/05/entry_35.html

It works with all kind of movies of all flavours.

You may have to practice.

Here's an alternative.

The page that QT X creates :

http://www.wyodor.net/_Discussions2/LotsAWaterMovie/LotsAWater.html

Copy the code in the two fields at the bottom of the page and paste them in a HTML Snippet.

Then change the path name to the picture and the movie. It is assumed that the folder is OUTSIDE the folder with the sitename. But wherever you put the folder with the movies, make sure the path is correct.

<a href="../../../LotsAWaterMovie/LotsAWater.mov" rel="qtposter">

     <img src="../../../LotsAWaterMovie/LotsAWater.jpg" width="640" height="376" />

</a>

This is the result :

http://www.wyodor.net/_Discussions2/LotsAWater/LotsAWater.html

Now the movie only loads and plays when the center button is clicked.