Streaming/playing movies with Quicktime

Whenever I click on a movie clip, the computer starts downloading the movie instead of just playing it. How can I tell QT to just play the clip without downloading/saving it?
Thank you.

I would click on a certain clip and it would play in WM or QT (without being saved).
Where or not a cached movie can be saved is another matter. Just because a movie is cached for playback does not necessarily mean it can be saved as an independent, self-sourced file, QTM, or reference file. As far as viewing on a PC is concerned, you have yet to indicate whether or not the files you were viewing were in fact real time streaming or being temporarily cached the same as QT or whether or not the files your are viewing in QT are real time screaming, being cached as progressively downloads for "fast playback," actually being saved as "standalone" files (which requires a manual save on your part), or merely QTML/Ref/Clippings which cache but actually resource data the remains online. Both the Mac and PC, as far as I know, only cache the data temporarily until the cache is filled and then reuses the cache memory applying a FIFO strategy. Under Leopard, for instance, I allocate 4 GBs of memory to caching movies so I can recall them without having to return to their source URL and reload the data.
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Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) "is a network control protocol... used to control streaming media Servers. (See RTSP Wikipedia.) Most QT content is dispensed online using normal (non-RTSS) servers to progressively download files for "fast start" playback. That is, the files load to your computer but in such a way that you don't have to wait for the entire file to download before you can begin playback. On the other hand, RTSP controls the dispensation of "packets" of dat from special Reat Time Streaming Servers (RTSS) that play immediately on your computer and are, or all intents and purposes, are gone from the computer. These types of files cannot saved locally and must be screen captured if you want to copy them. These true streaming files are the type of files found on most news, sports, and similar commercial web site. WMV and Real content were specifically designed for this purpose. QT was designed more to emulate the manner in which files are physically stored on magnetic or optical media as files of data rather than packets of data.
Not a specialist/technician speaking here, so I hope this relatively simplistic explanation suffices. That is, there are two ways of serving data and each is somewhat different. Most users prefer non-streaming data if they intend to save it (e.g., those who download and save movie trailers). Most site managers prefer streaming data when they want to prevent users from having the ability to save the content (e.g., news, sports, music radio, etc. web sites).

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