By default any Silverlight video you create in Expression Encoder 2 has AutoPlay set to true. Therefore if you have a Web page with several of these Silverlight applications embedded they’ll all start playing at the same time.
Figure 1: Turn it off.
Hidden Setting in Expression Encoder 2
There is a way to configure AutoPlay in Expression Encoder. It’s just not very obvious.
- Open Expression Encoder2
- Open an project and ensure that it contains a video. If not, Import a video.
- Go to the Output tab on the right hand side, and select a Template (see Figure 2).
- Click the Show Advanced Properties symbol. This will open another properties pane.
Figure 2: Output Tab.
There are few interesting properties in this advanced section. The two that solve the auto start problem are shown in Figure 3:
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Figure 3: Job output advanced properties.
Automatically start video when cued: Uncheck this checkbox to prevent the video for auto starting.
Automatically cue video when the page is loaded: This causes the video to be downloaded to the user computer even if playback has not started.
