When I click on the link the following code is generated:

document.getElementById('movie').innerHTML="<img border='5' dynsrc='C:/Movie1.avi' width='344' height='316'>"

The only problem is the avi file is 10 megs... so when the link is clicked on it takes a while for the avi file to download from the server. Two questions:

1) Is there a freeware software that will allow me to convert the 10 megs to something much smaller, this way when you click on the link the video will play right away...

2) Or is there a way to have a message appear advising the user to " be patient, video is downloading"?