When I have a non-streaming video file, the rest of the HTML's are not loaded until the avi has been completely downloaded. Is there a way conventional way to load the HTML's first and then start the download, or any other methods that would be better? one way I've thought is to display a simple embed tag with an id. Once the window is fully loaded, window.onLoad=function (){/*place video src into embed using its id and then play*/} What do you guys think? any ideas?