When embedding a windows media player wmv video into a Web page like
at http://www.marcfest.com/temp/embedvideotest.html, I want the first
or so frame of the video to show on loading of the page, before one
starts playing the video, rather than the black square currently
shown. How can I accomplish this? I thought of using Javascript to
tell Media Player to play the video for a fraction of a second after
the page is loaded and then pause so that an image is displayed but I
didn't succeed fiddling around with that. Any solution that will work
will be fine.

Also, what are good cross-browser compatible methods of embedding
videos like in the page above? It seems that the video in the Web page
above, for instance, does not play when viewed with Mozilla.

Thank you.

Marc