How to Autoplay in the Shockwave Flash Player

Shockwave is a Flash player from Adobe that is used on many websites that host user-submitted video. Like Java, Flash is meant to be equally accessible across platforms. These sites rely on Shockwave to provide a platform that will allow their videos to be displayed on most any computer and operating system. Users who wish to embed Flash content onto their own websites -- like that which will play as soon as a page is loaded -- must tell the player to use the "Autoplay" feature.

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  Copy the "embed code" given to you by your Flash application by highlighting it with the mouse and pressing "Ctrl" and "C" at the same time.

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  Paste the embed code into the new site by pressing "Ctrl" and "V" at the same time.

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  Click inside the box where you have pasted the code and move the cursor to the first instance of "&autoplay=0." Move the mouse cursor to the "0" and delete it. Replace it with "1."

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  Move the cursor to the second instance of "&autoplay=0" and delete the zero. Replace it with "1."

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  Submit the video in the usual manner.