Import video into Flash mx 2004

[sineadhartley]

HI
am trying to import a mpeg4(100mb) video into Flash mx 2004 and is causing alot of problems. I though this version of Flash was supposed to be optimised for video playback thus no need to opt for Director ???!! Anyway, am importing it and the playback quality is really crap and pixelated eventhough the original video is good quality.

Details:
Video dimensions 464 x 352
Sorenson compression options i have left to the default except quality which is set to 100.

Does anybody have any idea why the play back quality is so bad or could anybody recommend the sorenson compression options to use? Any help would be great coz am going to burn onto cd-rom for distribution and don't want to depend on users having quicktime on their machines.
Thanks! :)

[Legolas]

It sounds like your not waiting for a enough of the video to load before you start playing it. Try preloading it.

[Rossman]

When you import the movie into your library, you get a wizard that pops up and gives you several options. You need to choose a high-bitrate connection speed to get better quality. If you choose 56Kbps your video will look like garbage.

Unfortunately, the higher the bitrate, the bigger the resultant file.

Cheers,
mark