Opening URLs in QuickTime (10.0)

Hi. When I try to open a URL, there is a message in the player that says "Loading Movie...". This message is displayed for a long time.
After waiting for 30 or so minutes, I close the player. Then, I open the player and try to open the same URL. This time, the message is displayed for only a few seconds, then the video plays.
Is this behavior normal? Is QuickTime downloading the movie onto my computer during the time that the message is displayed?

Everything about how my Mac operates: what programs do what and how, what a kernel is, how web browers work... just general things like that. I don't want to spend 10 years to figure it all out.
Maybe if there was a book or something that would explain how operating systems work. I'm the kind of person that likes to dig around and understand how everything works.

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http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/03war/
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