Embedded QT Player Question

I have a QT movie set to fast-start that is embedded on a web page. The data rate is not too high, but high enough that people on a dial-up connection will have to wait a minute before the movie starts to play. That's fine.
But, is there a way to provide some sort of feedback to these users that something IS happening? I know the progress bar at the bottom is an indication, but that may not be obvious to some.
I believe I have seen some Quicktime movies that say "Buffering X%" or something to that effect in the status bar. Is there a way to make it say that? Or is buffering different from fast-start somehow?
Or is there a way to create maybe a poster frame using an image that says something like "Please be patient. Your movie will begin playing shortly."
Or does anyone have any other ideas as to how to communicate to those with a slow connection that they may just have to wait?

Take a look at the conversation in the "Quicktime and AJAX" thread. You can use a similar tactic to play two movies--
The first movie is a 'poster movie' that will load almost instantly, just a single frame. That's the movie you embed in the page. Also add that poster to the first frame of the actual movie.
Then embed the poster movie, and add some additional parameters to the OBJECT and EMBED tags--
HREF = "myrealmovie.mov"
TARGET = "myself"
AUTOHREF = "true"
I think that will come close. It should load the poster movie, which will display immediately. Then it should automagically start loading the real movie, which will autoplay as soon as enough of it has loaded...but the first frame of that movie, which matches the poster, should display instead of the big blue Q.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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