FP: Animation Starts Immediately After Page is Opened in Browser

When you open a Web page that contains a Video for Windows (.avi) file in a Web browser, the animation starts immediately after the page is loaded even though you cleared the Start options on the Video tab in the Image Properties dialog box (Edit menu).

This behavior occurs when either of the following lines of code are included in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document:

Use either of the following methods to resolve this behavior.

Method 1: Start animation immediately after loading the page

Set a start attribute to start animation immediately after loading the page. To do this, follow these steps:

1. In FrontPage Editor, select the image.
2. On the Edit menu, click Image Properties.
3. Click the Video tab.
4. Under Start, click to select the On File Open check box. Make sure the On Mouse Over check box is not selected.
   
   -or-
   
   Click to clear both the On File Open and the On Mouse Over check boxes.
5. Click OK.

Method 2: Start animation when the mouse passes over the image

1. In FrontPage Editor, select the image.
2. On the Edit menu, click Image Properties.
3. Click the Video tab.
4. Under Start, click to select the On Mouse Over check box. Make sure that the On File Open check box is not selected.
5. Click OK.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.