Force Movie to Wait Before Playing

I have a large movie (about 24Mb in size) and was wondering if it is possible to force a quicktime movie to wait until 50% of the movie has been downloaded to the viewer's computer before starting to play the movie in order to avoid the movie stalling when it plays. And, if so, is it possible to give the viewer an indication of what is happening.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks for your reply, QuickTimeKirk. Yes, I can see the plugin does wait at the start before it deems sufficient data has been downloaded before it starts playing the video. However, in this instance it doesn't prevent the player catching up with the data being cached later on. This means I may have to add instructions to the page to ask the viewer to pause the playing of the video and then wait until 50% of the data has been cached before rewinding to allow the movie to play without stalling.
I've provided a link to the test file below:
http://ridgedale.powweb.com/RNR/movie/rnrmov.html
Is there any way I can add a graphic (e.g. animated .gif?) to indicate in a more obvious way the data being downloaded?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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