[Digitale]

I'm trying to embed mp4 video (from N90) to a web-page.
I'm using basic QuickTime Object-element stuff.
The problem is that the embedded video doesn't fast start. It is downloaded fully before playing starts.

However if I open the orginal clip in QuickTime Pro 7 and export it as default MPEG-4 (MP4 (ISMA)) and embed result clip then the fast-start works and playing starts immediately.

How this stuff works at the atom level and is it possible to somehow tweak orginal mp4-file so that it fast-starts in QuikTime plug-in?
Command line utility would be ideal.

Note: To avoid confusion I'm not talking rtsp streaming here, it is different thing.
Also I don't want to use mov container.

[Digitale]

Just found one solution which can be used to create faststart files.
MPEG4IP http://www.mpeg4ip.net/ contains mp4creator tool.

Usage is simple, just use optimize option and it does required file rearrangements:
-optimize f:/htdocs/videos/Video.mp4

However, I found following comment
"Mp4creator's -optimize flag ends up
ripping out atoms that it doesn't think are necessary,
and sometimes breaks playback for some devices."

But ill give it a go, at least results work in QuickTime.