Whilst trying to dump something from the BBC (CBS also) I get the following: DEBUG: Invoking connect DEBUG2: RTMP_ReadPacket: fd=4 ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header Closing connection... done! I traced that to the buffer fill function in rtmp.c, where revc simply returns to have received 0 bytes. In the browser the video plays.... replay media center (virtualbox) reports something about encryption for the BBC stream, but is fine with the CBS one. Any Ideas on this ? Looks like the peer somehow drops the connection I just don't get why the player keeps on playing.... regards -rasp -- The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers