Comments on: How to Watch Real Media without Installing Real Media Player

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:11:53 +0000

Pity ogg vorbis is not widely supported

By: Mahmoud Kefaya Punk

Mahmoud Kefaya Punk — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:45:50 +0000

Ogg Vorbis has the same audio quality compared with the same size of real-media files. So I Ogg Vorbis becomes the alternative for the proprietary-based & hard to implement format :)

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:13 +0000

I see that this was published back in 2007. Nowadays, you can play real media format with VLC! Hooray!

By: John Agnus

John Agnus — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:40:33 +0000

thumbs up!

By: jason

jason — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:54:03 +0000

hey thanks a lot for the info, real player sucks

By: Atlatl

Atlatl — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:56:53 +0000

can VLC player be used with Real Alternative? I mean, MPC is the bundled one but can choose not to install it. So can VLC be used instead of MPC?

By: lucky v

lucky v — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:25:59 +0000

Alt. seems good since real player installs number of background process (msg centre, updates etc) without prior permission.

By: RonCam

RonCam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:16:55 +0000

Another vote for MP Classic. Real Player, several versions ago, is what drove me to do only monitored installs/uninstalls (InCtrl5/ChkCtrl), a practice I continue to this day. I had to clean the Registry by hand after the final uninstall, and to this day I find it hard to trust the Windows uninstall facility.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:36:36 +0000

@Rhonda – Thanks for your feedback. Don’t confuse media player classic with classic real media player. Media player classic is part of the bundle Real alternative comes with. It does not mean you have to install the original Real Media Player

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:01:36 +0000

it says on the Real Alternative site that you cannot use Real Alternative for streaming media and that you must use the classic Real Media Player for streaming media.

By: Girish

Girish — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:35:02 +0000

This is a really good alternative.

By: syahid ali

syahid ali — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:25:17 +0000

the original real player is a real cumbersome to use. this alternative is most welcomed.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:23:48 +0000

Shaolin: Thanks for the Comment. Real player did actually get released in 1995 http://www.realnetworks.com/company/index.html

My bit about 56k modems referenced to 1995… just that I was using 56k modems around the same time I started using Real Player.

rob: You’re the first person which has said anything nice about Real in a long time… maybe i’ll give it another shake one day.

By: How To Play Real Media Files Without Installing Real Media Player | The How To Do Things Blog

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:22:07 +0000

[...] Do you remember when you last used the Real Media Player? Many websites still want the Real Media Player installed if you want to access their multimedia content. It’s a bulky program just to access content on some websites and it doesn’t make sense to download it and then install it even if it is free. There is an alternative available. [...]

By: rob

rob — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:09:47 +0000

I had to rebuild my hard drive this week. I went to Google Pack and they offered Real Player so I grabbed it. I like it. It’s not taking over anything, loads fast and runs light. I have it as my default mp3 player. I use iTunes for listening to my songs, but if I play a voicemail or something iTunes puts it in the library. I hate that. WMP takes too long to load up. RP fires up fast and I have it sized small. When the voicemail or whatever is done, closing it is fast. Nothing running in the background. Just does what I want it to do!