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Thanks ElDiabloConCaca,
You are being very illuminating. Naturally, I am a bit mystified though, as I had already converted from Cinepak to DivX, resulting in good performance in Safari, if not anywhere else. Now i'm not sure which is the optimum procedure to gain further improvements in most browsers. Should I convert from the file I achieved employing DivX or alternatively the original exported Cinepak file to MP4 using Handbrake. I guess i'll find out in due course.
Incidently, reflecting on the fact that I am using 1500/256 kbps ADSL, one thing that dawned on me after my last forum edit, was that the 3 minute "freeze" with spinning beach ball, which was further accompanied by a blank area of screen where the video is supposed to be, on most other browsers, was actually the same 3 minutes it took on the successful Safari browser to buffer a 30 MB file. In other words, the whole "dogs breakfast" has fundamentally to do with buffering. If only the buffering could run slightly ahead of the video clip at a rate slightly in excess of the video frame rate, to eliminate the chance of a freeze! Now that would be fantastic.
Cheers,
Thomas T.
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