I notice my fan whirs fast during streaming video; is there a workaround?

My fan gets up there (I am thinking it's in the 5000s RPMs, if I remember my reading correctly) when I'm playing streaming video (on netflix, using Silverlight). I get no fan noise when playing downloaded video (like an .mov) in Quicktime or MPlayer.
I have tried elevating my laptop so that the center part of it is totally free. The fans still go.
I am wondering if this is an issue with Firefox in some way. Are other browsers better at streaming video?
The sound may be necessary, but it is slightly annoying. And I notice I am getting slightly annoyed with it.
Misha

Are you both running Mountain Lion?
I get the impression that my mac runs hotter when watching any video (streamed or not) since installing ML than it did uner Snow Leopard, but I haven't confirmed this with any solid empirical testing (perhaps I'm just more sensitive to what's going on under the hood now than I was before).

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OS X is able to control someway the fun so it is not always running fast (but quite often) while using boot camp with XP becomes impossible due to the fan always at max speed.
I don't think apple's rams could work at lower temperature than kingston ones, so the dubt now is that things are correct in this way.. so intel mac mini with 1/2GB could be a shame due to high level of fan noise... or... my mac mini has something wrong.
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