previewImage

The previewImage parameter is used to specify the location of an image file in PNG, JPEG or GIF format to use as a preview image. The preview image is displayed in place of the DivX “X” logo when autoPlay is set to false. This allows to setup a piece of  video so that it does not auto start but shows a preview image of what the video is about.

Users can then start the download and playback of the video by clicking anywhere on the preview image. See the previewMessage and previewMessageSize parameters for more options.

Note that you need to set the autoPlay parameter to false for this parameter to be taken into account.

Usage:

  • In the object tag:  <param name="previewImage" value="[value]"> 
  • In the embed tag:  previewImage="[value]"

Possible values:

  • A relative path, such as "myPreviewImage.gif" or "../../images/myImage.jpg". 
  • An absolute path, i.e. "http://mywebsite.com/myImage.png".