No start with "fast Start"

I have encoded numerous movies out of Final Cut for my iWeb site and can't get them to show and play while they're downloading. They won't show until they are completely loaded even though I encoded them with the "fast start" option checked in the movie settings window. I'm using the H.264 setting. What's strange is there are a few that will show and play while loading but most won't! I can't figure out why!? Below is a link to one of my pages that has links to 2 movies - one movie that works while the other doesn't.
http://web.mac.com/sammcj/iWeb/Sam%202K6%20Site/Dell.html
The first movie works while the second one just shows the QT icon until its loaded. They were encoded with the same settings...? Anybody else have this problem? If anybody has any insights I would really appreciate it! Thanks

Here is my observation....and hopefully someone like QuickTimeKirk will chime in with the real goods here...
I see your problem. The first movie does not autostart, but it does show the first frame and will indeed play while downloading if the play button is clicked. The second movie only shows the big Q until everything is downloaded and then it will play if clicked (no autoplay).
Now here is the strange part....and I hope you dont mind that I am doing this....I know QuickTimeKirk says never to link directly to the actual QuickTime movie file and all, but a rule is a rule, right????...meant to be broken. And here are two prime examples of where breaking the rules yields positive results...
If you link to the files directly, everything works as you planned out...fast-start, autoplay, everything!
Dell TechForce, Episode 1
Dell TechForce, Episode 2
Of course, the reason for this is that the movies are using the QT browser plugin directly and using the fast-start characteristics that you enabled. In iWeb, though, these encoded characteristics are overridden (in my experience) by whatever the parameters are set for in the published .js files.
So for example, your first movie has an associated .js file called "Techforce 1.js" that contains a bunch of QuickTime parameters. Here is an exerpt...
document.write('<object id="id5" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="477" height="285" style="height: 285px; left: 118px; position: absolute; top: 163px; width: 477px; z-index: 1; "><param name="src" value="Techforce%201_files/TechForce1.mov" /><param name="controller" value="true" /><param name="autoplay" value="false" /><param name="scale" value="tofit" /><param name="volume" value="100" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><embed pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" type="video/quicktime" class="mov" width="477" height="285" src="Techforce%201_files/TechForce1.mov" controller="true" autoplay="false" scale="tofit" volume="100" loop="false"></embed></object>');
The underlined parameters are the typically edited parameters in the .js files for QT movies. The three basic parameters are controller, autoplay, and loop...and these occur twice in the code. So changing autoplay from false to true would solve your autoplay problem.
But I don't know why the second movie just displays as a big Q while downloading. Hmm....
Well, I hope at least some of this is helpful to you in your troubleshooting. Best of luck....great videos. Funny stuff.

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