RE: joker...In your real player go to "View" in the menu bar at the top...then " preferences" ..then the "connection" tab. Once in there change the "buffered play" setting to something other than "buffer the entire clip to memory" That setting is fine if you have a high speed connection like cable or dsl but would probably take forever if you are connected via dial-up.
Also make sure ...in the same box ...that you bandwidth settings are correct.
relic :)