It's probably just the fact that it is 125 Mb. I would bet that if you open it in the QT movie player and scrub the playhead in to say 1/2 the movie it'll take some time before it starts too... Normal behavior. It takes a while for the hard drive to seek that far into the file is all. About all you could do is compress it more, reduce the size, etc... Make it smaller. Dave [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]