Okay this is something that has bugged me ever since QuickTime 4.0 was released and it still persists with QT 4.1.1.

Whenever I launch a QT streaming channel or open a QT file two QT players will open. One called "untitled 1" which does absolutely nothing but sit there on my desktop and then a second QT Player in which the QT will play. How do I stop this madness?

I already have "open movie in new player" unchecked in the preferences. Any suggestions?

TIA

Until sufficient info about the playable file has been downloaded (header info, it's title, dimensions etc) QT must launch a negotiator to obtain this info before it can create the window etc for the actual streamed file. It's inelegant but necessary, the progress could be hidden but then QT would look like it was doing nothing!. Can't have everything.