I played around with apple quicktime player and it's a quiet proffetional application ( rev. 7.02 ) and comes free in a reduced version but I discovered that there was an ocx related that also play the apple .mov file type both from disk and as streamed... Script needs latest autoit3 beta and quicktime player ( free addition ) ; Embedded Quicktime com obj player example ;by Kåre Johansson date 5.10.05 ;need the QTPlugin.ocx plugin in system32 or in QuickTime\QTPlugin.ocx ;and probably the fre