Play video on demand automatically?

[yoknows]

We have a premium account where we will be charging users to view an on-demand video. We will be embedding the player on our site and want to auto-play the on-demand video (a la Youtube) when the user clicks PLAY. This would mean we do not want anything to play in the auto pilot. Currently, we have an auto-pilot with our logo and the video on demand section of the player displays our video, so the user would have to click that video to play it. Instead, we'd like that video to be set to play and all they would have to do is click the play button.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

[cseeman]

Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you want to do but you can just embed the Video Library without the Player.

http://www.livestream.com/userguide/..._.28default.29

The user chooses the clip. Is that what you're trying to avoid? You want the clip already loaded but not playing (as auto pilot would do)?

[yoknows]

Thanks for replying. We already have our embed code, similar to the link that you sent me. We will be using that embed code to display our live event for paid subscribers. Once the live event is over, we want to allow paid subscribers to watch the event and only that event whenever they want (like Youtube, you can go to a page and press play and the movie starts from the beginning). We do not want too autoplay the event since people should be able to watch it from the beginning (without clicking on the library).

Something I would think could be possible would be to declare in the embed params which on demand video could be auto-loaded. This way the users wouldn't have to take the extra step of selecting the only video from the on demand library. Is this possible?

Thanks.

[cseeman]

Once the live event is over, we want to allow paid subscribers to watch the event and only that event whenever they want

If they are to only see and play a single event, I'd imagine that currently you'd have to create a separate page after each event with the link to the specific video.

If you can detail EXACTLY how you'd like it to work and post it in the Feature Request forum. Also, since this might be a worthwhile Premium feature resulting in more paid accounts for Livestream it might be worthwhile to open a Support Ticket because a cost benefit analysis might motivate the programers to implement this.