basic question - how do i play, pause, and mute swfObject from javascript now?

[teamz]

i'm just getting my feet wet, and running into a fundamental problem.
i'm simply trying to control the flash player from javascript, and all
the old controls i used to use (player.play(), player.pause(), etc)
seem to be undefined for the object.  all i want to do is load the
flash player and then mute or unmute it from javascript, and i'm
hoping not to muck with flash code (which I don't know).

here is what i'm doing:


<div id="myObject"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject_src.js"></script>
<script>
function playerCallback(e){
//i'm trying to play, pause, or mute the player
//var obj == document.getElementById("myObject");
//i've tried obj.play(), obj.pause(), obj.mute(), obj.sendEvent(),
they're all not existing properties.
}

    (function(){
    var config = {
        player: "{$swf_file}",
        div: "myObject",
        width: "300",
        height: "250",
        version: "9.0.0",
        express: "{$swf_file}"
    };
    var flashvars = {
        File: "{$flv_file}",
        Mode: "ondemand",
        AutoPlay: "true"
    };
    var params = {
        allowFullScreen: "true",
        allowScriptAccess: "always"
    };
    var attributes = {
        id: "myId"
    };
    swfobject.embedSWF(config.player, config.div, config.width,
config.height, config.version, config.express, flashvars, params,
attributes, playerCallback);
    })();

the player and flv file load just fine, but no matter i try a callback
function, window onload event, grab myObject or myId, i just can't
figure out how to get to the basic player controls.  i enumerate
through the object tag properties and don't see any relevant methods
or properties to use.  i also tried this using traditional embeds
instead of swfObject and i'm running into the same basic problem, so
probably i either don't understand the new flash api, or the
functionality has been removed somehow.  i have flash 10 installed,
running firefox 3.5.

thanks in advance.




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