function play() {
if (!started) {
ns.play(url);
} else {
ns.play();
}

Which is bullet proof and works 100% of the time – just doesn’t allow for cacheing. :(

I’m not sure I follow – how are you doing it in action script? Can you post some examples?

I currently am working on a flash video player and use that exact approach:

ns.play(url);
ns.pause(true);
ns.seek(0);

but Win2K IE6 and WinXP IE7 both have problem: when I close the popup browser window and click on the same or similar link, the ns doesn’t seem to start playback… and in fact IE can no longer visit the domain (url) it was streaming the video from in the first place…

Strange.

Regards,
– Leo