What is streaming?

Streaming allows you to play a programme straight from the BBC iPlayer programme pages, without you having to download the programme to your hard drive first. Simply choose a programme and Click to Play.

Don't forget that you have to be online for the entire length of the programme to play it.

The programme is not stored on your computer, which means that you can use the slider bar at the bottom of the Click to Play window to skip ahead or go back to wherever you want in the programme and start watching.

To use streaming on your computer you need to install Flash, a program which Adobe provides a version of for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Click here to get the latest version for your computer.

This link will take you to a website outside BBC Online. The BBC is not responsible for content or software downloaded from external sites.

This streaming technology is similar to that used by other popular video sites, such as YouTube, Google Video or MTV, amongst others.

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