IWeb Movies

I have a movie which is 176 megs. When I insert it into a movie page and upload it, it will not play. It seems to be downloading, but even after the download it does not play. If I create a small section of that movie and upload it will play. There is no difference in the files except it's smaller.
Both are hinted with fast start.
Any Ideas

If you drag a movie onto an iWeb page and publish then when the page is loaded the movie begins to load also. There are ways to add a movie so it won't load until the play button is selected:
Opening Item in a New, Precisely Sized Window
QT Movies via Export for Web in QT Player
The second method is more involved in implementing. Both require the movie file to be uploaded to the server once manually and then is just linked to from the page.
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