Sorry, Í cant stop it from starting - it's a streaming thread, and is not "held" on my machine, it's only just a few seconds held in the buffers - the playback starts as soon as the buffers are full - cause it AS-U-MEs that I am sitting at the end of a big fat pipe, not a tiny little dribble :-) - at about 2.5 to 3.5 Kb/s is what the stream is throttled to when it reaches me, and it plays at about 103kb/s - just no way to watch it on my machine from that source. If it finishes - to play it again it has to download it all again from the beginning - nothing is held in 'storage' anywhere saveable from, on my machine - just in the temporary internal buffers.

A thorough pain...

Robin