How to Watch Videos and Listen to Audio General Instructions Here's how you can watch videos and listen to audio programs on The Archaeology Channel. The first video listed on the Home Page, with a text description, picture and links to the video pages, is our most recently introduced video. To watch it, you must have one of our supported video players (Windows Media Player or RealPlayer) installed. Our Home Page includes links (look just above the featured videos) to the sites were you can download the free players. Windows Media Player versions, all of them free, are available for a wide variety of player systems (including PC and Mac computers) and devices. When you go to the RealPlayer site, be aware that you can choose the free player option-you don't have to buy the player with all the bells and whistles because the free player works just fine! RealPlayer will play most kinds of audio and video media files and has version for both PCs and Macs. Once you have the player(s) installed, to watch the video just click on the connection speed (or bandwidth) for your Internet connection and player. To test your bandwidth, you can go to speedtest.net. If you have a standard telephone dial-up modem, click on "56k." If you have a cable modem or DSL connection, click on "300k" or "700k" depending on how much bandwidth you have. When you click on the connection speed, a video player page will appear that begins to play the video within a designated frame. The control panel below the frame operates much like that on a DVD or Blu-ray player. For on-demand videos, you can pause, fast-forward, rewind, and stop as well as control the volume. If you right-click on the video, other options appear, including the video frame size, which you can expand if you want. Other information about the video and the video subject appears in text, links and images alongside the video frame. On the Home Page, below the most recently introduced video description is a list of video titles. You can also find a complete list by clicking on the Video Guide and you can select videos geographically by going to the Video Guide Map. To view one of these, just click on the title. When you do that, a small window will appear that includes the video description with a picture and links to the video player pages. To watch the video, just click on the connection speed as described above. Our audio programs operate in much the same way. Generally, just click on the connection speed for your Internet connection and player, and an audio player page will appear and the audio will play. Questions? If you still have questions, or want to submit comments or suggestions, please send them via e-mail . Back to top