From the recent research I've done to try and get a video file to play within my database I read that when the metadata is at the end of the file then it has to read the whole file before it will play.

Someone wrote a program that will quickly move the metadata to the beginning of the file(s) so it will stream the videos.

Check out MetadataMover at: http://rndware.info/content/MetadataMover

You can also test whether the video has metadata using this link: http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/online_meta_data.htm

Hope this helps :)

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