[Thomas T.]

Hello ElDiabloConCarca,

I've removed the video from the site until I get the mess sorted out. This is because I could not even scroll down the page due to the forever-spinning "beach-ball", this Sunday morning; (school holidays!). It took about 5 minutes for a black square to appear on screen and it was subject to "tiling"; (black squares in several places up and down the page).

The issue is perhaps to do with hosting on a shared server in Arizona and Broadband speed in various locations and at different times of day around the globe.

(The site is incidently, standard CSS xhmtl 10 page software provided by Godaddy).

File size is of course another issue. Godaddy recommends a max file size of 30MB. My snippet is actually about 28MB. The fact that I was always getting the on-screen warning "The playlist format is not recognized", after several minutes, I suspect, was simply the process of "timing-out".

To answer your questions pertaining to the Applications library, Internet Plug-ins, I have "Quicktime Plugin.plugin" and "Quicktime Plugin.webplugin" installed. I've had Flip4mac sitting in Applications for some time but activated it this morning. I don't have Perian.

Anyway, it looks like it may boil down to some basic choices: (a) forget the video altogether; or (b) buy a server boost; or (c) cut the file size to maybe 20MB and give potential viewers a warning of the wait-time should they care to view the video; or (d) install 3 brief 10MB snippets, above the fold, in the middle, and at the bottom.; (flora, fauna and coastline).

Thanks for your interest,

Thomas T.