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To help you use this site there are a series of online video tutorials. These video tutorials take you step by step through using some of the key features of the site. It is hoped that they will make managing your account easier.

These video tutorials use flash video as it is now the de facto standard and does not require the use of complex codecs.

Click Here to play the Members Preview Video

Click Here to play the How To Register tutorial

Click Here to play the How To Login tutorial

Click Here to play the Lost Username tutorial

Click Here to play the Lost Password tutorial

Click Here to play the Change Your Details tutorial

Flash Video is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player.

The format has quickly established itself as the format of choice for embedded video on the web. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.

The standards documentation for BBC Online deprecates the use of other formats previously in use on its sites such as RealVideo or WMV.

Flash Video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin, or one of several third-party programs.

FLV files in Windows Media Player

The latest versions of Windows Media Player should play Flash FLV files without any problem, but you may need to install a media decoder first. If your version of WMP doesn't work with FLV files,  try installing ffdshow.

When you open an FLV file the player may give you a warning message saying that it doesn't recognize the file extension — click OK and play the file anyway.