Posted by Laddie_In_A_Stitch on 02/20/07 03:05

Hi. I created a simple html menu that contains links to media on local
disk. I use code like this:

<a href="file:///C:\Temp\movie.avi">Play movie</a>

I have several movies that are ~1GB in size. When clicking on the link
above IE6 takes very long to start playing the movie. If seems IE6
first reads the whole movie file before passing it to Windows Media
Player Classic. Why? Is there a way to make IE6 just start playing
right away? These delays are driving me mad.

In Windows Explorer the movie starts immediately when I double-click
it.

Thanks for your help.

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