I give up on trying to get the Quick Time video on my website to load faster than 48 seconds. I have asked everywhere and lots of nice people have told me what they thought I should do, but nobody could tell me how to do it.

So I am ready to pay.

Will some of you nice folks recommend a streaming video server that will not cost me an arm and a leg? I want one who will help me and give me advice. If they are not willing ARE NOT ABLE to give me advice I don't want 'em. Note: I talked to a sales person at streamhoster.com and he complicated my life even more than what it is already.

Here's the background:

I edited my video in Premiere 7.

I embeded the following code into an html page and uploaded to my websitge where it plays nicely, but it takes 48 seconds for it to load.

<object width="320" height="256"
classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="monademo.mov" >
<param name="controller" value="true" >
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<object type="video/quicktime" data="monademo.mov" width="320" height="256">
<param name="controller" value="true" >
<param name="autoplay" value="false"
pluginpage=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</a>
</embed>
</object>

This is a wedding video demo and nobody is going to wait 48 seconds to watch a demo. If anyone is interested in checking it out here is the link to my wedding photography website:

http://www.kandhweddingphotography.com

First I suggest you set the "autoplay" to "true". As far as the loading of the video....it didn't take 48 seconds...only a couple of seconds....but I do have a high-speed cable connection.

You have lots of errors in the html. There's an </embed> but no <embed> . The " marks don't match, etc. There are better solutions for web video than QuickTime. Flash is used much more.