media player, show the first frame of the avi when loaded

hi.
i just wondered if the windows media player component could show the first frame of the movie when a file is loaded in
mediaplayer1.filename = "xxxx"

then it would just show the first frame until I give the
.play command

possible?

how?

thanks
wengang

Well I dont know very much about this, but you could maybe press play, then DoEvents and then press pause ?