That's because an swf file is treated more or less like an image, it provides no (duration) metadata like a "normal" video clip that could be processed. Therefore flowplayer thinks it's at the end of the "video" right from the start.
As you can't pause an swf either, you want to disable the play button entirely:
HTML setup for the player
<!-- include latest Flowplayer javascript file -->
<script language="javascript" src="path/to/flowplayer-3.2.4.js"></script>
<!-- player container with optional splash image -->
<a href="path/to/video_file" id="playerContainer">
<img src="path/to/splash_image" />
</a>
JavaScript coding
Following script will install Flowplayer into our player container
<script language="javascript">
// our custom configuration is given in third argument
flowplayer("playerContainer", "path/tohttp://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.4.swf",{
clip: {
url: "/swf/clock.swf",
scaling: "fit"
},
// play button does not make sense for swf
// therefore disable it
play: null
});
</script>
Same for the controlbar - I've left it in the example so you can check the behaviour.
imho, it doesn't make a lot of sense to "play" an swf file with flowplayer, except perhaps as part of a playlist. I'd embed it directly, or use jQuery Tools' flashembed:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/toolbox/flashembed.html
