[Markschneg]

Your file could be getting corrupted during the FTP transfer. Though this isn’t the most likely scenario, it isn’t unheard of though. Make sure your transfer mode is set to binary (most ftp clients can auto-determine the setting nowadays), and not ASCII mode. Again, not the most likely thing, but something to look at.

Also, try tweaking the export to WMV a bit. You’re obviously already dropped to 15fps; try encoding as VBR instead of CBR.

Lastly, your webserver could be botching the actual serving-up of the file. Again, not the most likely, but may be worth sending a nice email to your host in case you’ve found no other remedy.

Good Luck.

-Mark

[Markschneg]

In this day and age, you’re probably going to want to use FLV (Flash Video). Vegas 6.0 doesn’t export to FLV like Premiere Pro or some others do, but I can’t imagein Vegas 7 won’t. Anyway, for now, try dumping your project out as an AVI (or whatever format your FLV encoder likes), and then recode it. Riva FLV Encoder is one of the free encoders I can think of (along with MediaCoder and another multi-encoder simply called “Super”)

Free Riva encoder is at https://www.rivavx.de/index.php?encoder&L=3

Embedding FLV’s is pretty easy. They are also very quick to stream progressively, and I am almost positive you’ll get them to compress better than WMV or MOV at the same size and bitrate. I just did half a dozen demo reels in FLV, and they stream beautifully, and start up fast. Embedding code can be found all over the net. Google for “embed flv” and you’ll get more than enough sample code. Good luck.

-Mark