Windows Media Player 10

I have an embedded .WMV on a page within my site. With the older versions of
Windows Media Player there was a little animation that let you know the file
was loading. With WMP 10 I don't see that animation. I'm afraid that if a user
thinks that nothing is happening on that page that they won't hang around long
enough. I even tried adding the 'animationatStart' parameter, and still
nothing. Is there anything else I can do?