help for a beginer

[MikeG]

Hi,
I have a very basic web site and want to add a link to play small movie files.
I uploaded a test movie to my web space and almost the only coding is this line that I cribbed from an earlier thread:-

<EMBED id=wmpPrev style="WIDTH: 590px; HEIGHT: 300px" name=wmpPrev src="testmovie.mpg " width=590 height=300 autostart="false" loop="false">

It works OK but is a bit untidy.
Is there any way I can
a) wait until the file is loaded before automatically starting to play
b) calculate and advise how long the file will take to load depending on connection

If you have five minutes to help the test page can be found at

www.pgsc20025.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/testmovie

Grateful for any advice

Mike

[mtgentry]

Id this the effect you want?
http://www.hoopladesign.com/motion/absolut/absolut.html


A) What you want is something called "hinted" streaming. When you export your movie file there should be an option for this if your editing program is good. After Effects for example allows this. It has nothing to do with coding.

B) Im sure you can find a chart somewhere on the web with this info. For example a "5mb file on 56k takes X minutes" etc...