How to add preview image to a WMV player embedded in a HTML page?

I have a HTML page in which I plan to add a WMV player. This player streams video from a server location. The complete setup and code seems to be fine, only thing is, since I don't want the video to start automatically, I have placed the AutoStart attribute to false. Now, when the page loads, the video doesn't start automatically, but displays a black background in the screen area. I would like to have a preview image of the video with a big play button in the center similar to how it is displayed in many sites where video is embedded.
What code needs to be added to this code pasted to get the preview image? Reply at the earliest is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="498" height="333" codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/">
<param name="Filename" value="test_video.wmv">
<param name="AutoStart" value="false">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="true">
<param name="BufferingTime" value="2">
<param name="AutoSize" value="true">
<param name="InvokeURLs" value="false">
<embed src="test_video.wmv" type="application/x-mplayer2" autostart="0" enabled="1" showstatusbar="0" showdisplay="1" showcontrols="1" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,0,0" width="498" height="333"></embed>
</object></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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I completely agree with what you wish to say. Only thing is, the client needs it to be a WMV player and needs the same functionality in it too. I just want to confirm in case that is technically possible or not. The other round-about which I thought was, to place a static image in the same place as video, and on click, the image is replaced with the real video.
The only problem which is coming up here is, I cannot play the video once i click on the image (using javascript). Rest everything is working fine. In case you can suggest how can I play a video using javascript, that could also work out. I cannot set the AutoStart to true as in case the image is not clicked for sometime, the video starts playing in the background. Please see the attched code.
Thanks again for the help!

<script language="javascript"> 
function toggle() {
	var ele = document.getElementById("imgd");
	var plyr = document.getElementById("plyr");
	var Player = document.getElementById("Player");
	if(ele.style.display == "block") {
    		ele.style.display = "none";
    		plyr.style.display = "block";
			
	// SOME CODE TO FOLLOW HERE WHICH WOULD TRIGGER THE PLAY OF VIDEO
	
	}
} 
</script>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div id="imgd" style="display:block;"><img src="video_screenshot.jpg" onclick="javascript:toggle();"/></div><div id="plyr" style="display:none;"><object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="498" height="333" codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" id="Player">
<param name="Filename" value="test_video.wmv">
<param name="AutoStart" value="false">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="true">
<param name="BufferingTime" value="2">
<param name="AutoSize" value="true">
<param name="InvokeURLs" value="false">
<embed src="text_video.wmv" type="application/x-mplayer2" autostart="0" enabled="1" showstatusbar="0" showdisplay="1" showcontrols="1" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,0,0" width="498" height="333"></embed>
</object></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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