Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
the one on the right is a flash player and it doesn't run until you
click on it. The other one, on the left, is a wmp player and its
that one that starts right away.
What happens in a test profile?
Thanks Peter,
What happens, happens pretty fast. I do appreciate your help. If you
have figured this out, and so I can deal with this in the future,
were you saying in your previous post to hit F11 as soon as I see
the opening web page to stop the WMP version from starting? That
might be helpful if I ever visit this site again (not likely) but
not if I stubble on another web site that does the same thing
without my anticipation or and without warning.
Beyond this specific example, once a video starts, as this one does,
how to stop it without shutting down? Losing control over the
computer is my principal concern.
No. I have not created a test profile yet. I am hoping someone knows
how to defeat an "attacking" video.
Thanks for your help.
I didn't say that at all about F11. You said you get a "full screen
video captured my computer" so I interpreted that as saying you get
the video in Full Screen mode. Hitting F11 is a toggle between full
screen and normal screen mode. From the browser, hit F11 and see
what happens.
Now reading what you're saying, this is not your problem. So, you
have to tell me what you mean by "an 'attacking' video? Yes, on that
site [and on others], the video plays automatically. Thats the way
the site was designed and the way wmp works. Unfortunately, as far as
I know, there is no way to turn off the automatic start of a wmp
video without hitting the stop button on the video controls.
So, maybe you need to give a little more info about what exactly is
your problem.
F11 toggles nothing. The video plays full screen.
There are no video controls displayed to hit the stop button. If there
is a stop button on this (or any other) web site and the video
autoplays instantaneously, I doubt that I would know in time to stop
it. In this case, WMP does not start in a visible way. The monitor
screen just drops to black and a few seconds later the video starts.
The questions remains, how to a) stop an instantaneous video from
running without my explicit action to start it, or how to stop such a
video during play. All I want is to be able to regain control of the
computer and not have to wait until a video ends or until I shut down
the computer.
lets try it this way. This is what I see when I visit that site:
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1678/wmpah0.jpg
On the bottom right is a flash vid that won't start until I click it.
On the bottom left is a wmp vid that starts automatically when I go to
that page. As you can see, I have controls on the bottom of the vid to
stop, start, and so forth. Is this what you see? If not, then post an
image somewhere of what you get and we'll go from there.
Yes Peter,
That is what I see for less than two seconds. Not enough
time for me to get the cursor to that (sub)menu bar and hit
stop. Certainly not enough time to even know what or where
to look if I am a first time visitor. Of course, by now, I
am not a first timer.
Nonetheless, once this video starts, I cannot stop it. This
is NOT about this particular sales pitch on this site. I am
not intentionally going back to this site again, but I have
concern about this happening again on another site. That is
what I am asking help about. How can I stop/escape this type
of behavior (elsewhere) once it starts? I want to be able to
take back control of my computer. How to do this? That is
the question.
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