title: SWFObject addParam failure
body: <p>So I'm simply trying to prevent a flash video from playing on page load but have so far been unsuccessful.  The code in question is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="flashcontent"&gt;This text is replaced by the Flash movie.&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  
  var so = new SWFObject("link_to_video","mymovie", "350", "400", "8", "");
  
  so.addParam("play","false");          
  so.write("flashcontent");
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with <code>link_to_video</code> of course actually being a real link.  The video plays just fine, but with or without that addParam it plays on page load.  The code is using a local version of SWFObject that's at version 1.5, but as far as I can tell the addParam function is available in 1.5.  Upgrading to 2.0 is not a desirable solution.</p>