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Mike_W_
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November 19, 2013
Question

Please add control of Autoplay

  • November 19, 2013
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Flash AutoPlay is a Major PITA!

Yeah, yeah, I know, autoplay is coded in the individual webpages.  Or, more specifically, in the sidebar ads embedded into multitudes of web pages.  Mike M's raving response rant to another poster here notwithstanding, this problem IS within Adobe's control.

The solution is stunning trivial.  On the Playback tab of the Flash Player Settings Manager dialog box (via the "Global Settings..." link) add a checkbox to Disable Autoplay.  Then user preference can control the damn thing!  Flash simply acts as if every page is coded with autoplay=false or whatever nonsense it takes.  This is called an 'override', it's not a new concept.  Flash already does this with all the AskMe/BlockIt options in the same dialog box.

No, hitting mute is not a solution.  Nor is disabling all Active-X, or any of the other kludges out there.  Tracking down the offending video(s) when you've opened multiple newspaper web pages at the same time is just a mess.

Help us Adobe-Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope!

FWIW, I'm using Adoble Flash Player 11.9.900.117 on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1

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C_F_McBlob
C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
November 19, 2013

Apparently you didn't get what I posted the first time.

"Autoplay" is an embed code.
It's IN THE HTML of the video's page, if the developer put it there, and ONLY if the developer put it there.
Flash Player ONLY plays automatically on pages that have "autoplay=yes" set as a parameter in the HTML by the page developer.


All the ranting by you and everyone else on earth CAN'T and WON'T change that. NOT NO WAY. NOT NO HOW.

The Player CANNOT FORCE the video to do something it DOESN'T have the code for... like NOT playing annoying ads.
It's like trying to force a DVD player to play "Casablanca" in color when it was filmed in black and white.

Using Internet Exploder is one of the worst things you can do on the web. Thanks to the (circa 1993) ActiveX controls, you CANNOT install Ad blocking plugins, like you can with Opera, Safari, Chrome or Firefox... REAL browsers.

Perhaps it's time you stopped being a slave to the "masters" in Redmond and think for yourself. Dump the "problem child" of browsers, and get with the program.

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Mike_W_Author
Participant
November 19, 2013

Ha ha ha!  Seriously, Dude?  I'm thinking you might need to trade in that Cowboy hat of yours for an adult size, 'cuz it's obviously way too tight.  Kna'mean?

Neither HTML coded web pages, nor physical DVDs are capable of 'doing' anything on their own.  They do not 'play' themselves, or even 'autoplay' themselves.  'Playing' something requires an appropriate 'player', hence the name.  An 'Autoplay' tag is an encoded request which need not be honored by the player.

What would be really nice, would be for the Adobe Flash Player to support a global user switch instructing it to IGNORE the autoplay=yes option.  Then 'autoplay' videos would behave, on that user's system, as if the developer had not put the parameter in there in the first place.  The user would still have the ability to press the play button on that specific video IF, and only if, they wanted to.  This is not a tough thing to do.

By the way, this was a request, not a rant.  Oh, and Ted Turner already colorized Casablanca for you.  Don't know if the DVD autoplays though.

C_F_McBlob
C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
November 19, 2013

Tell you what, professor…

Since OBVIOUSLY all it takes is a few lines in public forum to do this, why don’t you get to work on it, make your own player, and start a company to market and distribute it? You’ve CLEARLY got that much down.

BTW, can you point me to the new (Chevy/Chrysler/Ford) model that automatically fills in pot holes in the road and makes all the traffic lights green all the time?

Didn’t think so….

Perhaps you’d like your money back for Flash Player?

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