The work around was simply to remove my own play button in the swf, then set autostart to false and use the flvplayer button. that works.

The big button in the middle. On some player versions, there's the hidecontrols=true option, but when I try that, the runtime result is the invitation to get the Adobe player... where is the source for this? I guess I could take a look... thanks again. this is working very well... just need that one...

Hi: this is a real nifty extension. Just worked from the get-go. I do have one question though. Is there a property for turning off the Play button centered in the player video frame? I'm using SWFs that already embed a play button. If worse came to worse, I could remove them and just use the player...