diff --git a/prog5/prog5.html b/prog5/prog5.html
index 1a75e38..38ca76a 100644
--- a/prog5/prog5.html
+++ b/prog5/prog5.html
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Project 5 -->
                     Z-AXIS<input id="z-light" type="range" min="-5.0" max="5.0" value="0" step="0.1" oninput="refresh()">
                 </font>
             </center>
-        <video id="video" src="Firefox.ogv" autoplay muted>
+        <video id="video" src="Firefox.ogv" autoplay muted style="display: none;">
       Your browser doesn't appear to support the <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element.
         </video>

diff --git a/prog5/prog5.js b/prog5/prog5.js
index 3bbd660..77b6710 100644
--- a/prog5/prog5.js
+++ b/prog5/prog5.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ var lastClientY;

 var videoElement;
 var modelTexture;
+var copyVideo;

 //refresh function used to request animation frame after moving slider in HTML
 function refresh(){
@@ -171,7 +172,6 @@ function loadTexture(image, texture){
   gl.texParameteri(gl.TEXTURE_2D, gl.TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, gl.LINEAR);
   gl.texParameteri(gl.TEXTURE_2D, gl.TEXTURE_WRAP_S, gl.CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
   gl.texParameteri(gl.TEXTURE_2D, gl.TEXTURE_WRAP_T, gl.CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
-    requestAnimationFrame(draw);
 }


@@ -194,8 +194,14 @@ function init(){
     videoElement = document.getElementById("video");

     modelTexture    = gl.createTexture();
+    // put 1 pixel in it so we can render before the video starts
+    gl.bindTexture(gl.TEXTURE_2D, modelTexture);
+    gl.texImage2D(
+        gl.TEXTURE_2D, 0, gl.RGBA, 1, 1, 0, gl.RGBA, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE,
+        new Uint8Array([255, 255, 255, 255]));

     videoElement.addEventListener("canplaythrough", startVideo, true);
+    videoElement.addEventListener("playing", () => { copyVideo = true; }, true);
     videoElement.addEventListener("ended", videoDone, true);

    /* videoElement.onload   = function() {
@@ -217,7 +223,9 @@ function init(){


 function draw(){
+    if (copyVideo) {
       updateTexture();
+    }
     //compose matrices for transformations
     var viewMatrix          = new Matrix4();
     var projectionMatrix    = new Matrix4();