So - You're looking to get rid of that white screen with play button, eh...?

This play button issue is a persistent frustration for many Captivate users. There are a variety of answers and ideas surrounding the topic and a lot of blame gets placed on the web browsers out there.

It is true that web browsers have introduced some new standards to do away with auto play of audio/video but that is a separate issue than the play button you see on published Captivate projects. Even projects with no audio or video at all deal with this.

Your users will need to interact with your project to hear any automatically played audio - this will not solve that but it will get them to the first slide that you want them to see.

My recommendation is to create meaningful interaction with the project at the beginning - problem solved. If you have already been doing this for years - you know the frustration of making the user click two times now to get going.

Here is my video walkthru of solutions to make it go away. Hopefully it is worth 15 minutes of your time to watch.

Bypass the Play Button - YouTube (15min 29sec)