Direct Streaming with Safari on Windows

Using Final Cut Express, I have assembled camcorder clips into a 30 minute movie for a local community organization. Exporting .mov and then using iDVD, I have made an acceptable DVD which can play on all appropriate equipment. However, distribution is difficult and expensive.
My problem is find a system so that most people with broadband can stream an MPEG-4 movie file from the web. On iMac, IPad, G4Mac under Leopard, the file streams fine from Safari, without the use of a streaming server.
However, the story is completely different using Safari on Wintel machines (mostly XP). On Windows, Safari first downloads the mp4 file before running QuickTime. Can I get Safari to stream directly as on Mac? Or do I have to set up a streaming server? Or even convert to Flash!
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You would do far better to use Flash, since most people already have that.
Quicktime is a HUGE download and many people simply won't bother with that. It also messes downloads from other sites, such as music sites selling MP3s - Quicktime is designed to take over the whole media system of people's computers and this can cause significant problems with downloads from other websites.
Thus I, and I am sure that many others do not like that and will never ever run Quicktime.
Flash is a far superior technology and relatively bug free. Just like web applications or any other, poorly designed Flash applications can have security problems and bugs, however the technology itself is top notch. I am sure we will find similar problems once HTML5 take a hold.
In regard to streaming servers, RED5 is open source and free of cost >> all you need is a VPS at a minimum. That combined with Flash is very hard to beat!

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