Stream MPEG using MX

[DANSSWARE]

Is there a way to stream an MPEG movie within a flash movie? Is there a tutorial I can look at for this? I have been doing research and all I've come up with is to get MX 04 Pro...

Thanks!

[oldnewbie]

If you embed the .mpg in it's own external .swf, and then use loadMovie to load it up in your main movie, without preloading it, it should stream...
Doesn't mean it will stream without breaks for slow connected users though!

[DANSSWARE]

Thanks... Flash makes it a 100MB file for a 3 Min clip.... Hopefully future versions of Flash will be better integrated!

[oldnewbie]

How heavy was it to start with? Did you lower the import quality when embedding the .mpg by as little as 5% (to 95% or 90% or even lower...)? That should make a big difference in the .swf's size.