Did you know that there is metadata encoded into the mp4 file and it (stupidly) is encoded at the end of the video. This means that a player like flowplayer, gddflvplayer and most others download the entire video to your browser before playing it. I discovered this only by noticing two videos, same filesize and same bitrate, but one started playing immediately in my browser while my Cyberlink-PDR created one took ages to download before starting.
The trick is to get a copy of MP4FastStart.exe and process your finished mp4 file before uploading to your server. I show here a look at the beginning of my mp4 and then again after MP4FastStart and the metadata has been written to the beginning of the file !
Remember to run as administrator if you use Vista
Now the video starts playing immediately in the browser !
Might I suggest that the boffins in Cyberlink HQ automatically code this as a default since it is crazy to put it at the end of the file (Sony and other nle editors have the same problem) Google forthe MP4FastStart site
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