Real Alternative 2.0.2 reviews

3.83 from 154 Reviews
Real Alternative 1.29
Mad Guy
on 31 January 2005
Who made this screwoff program????
It DOES NOT work with WMP10!! Install Classic WMP??? Thats the whole point of the program (atleast what is should be) - you only have to use ONE MEDIA PLAYER!! because ALL music is the same you just need a codec to decode it and you dont have to download 5 bs media players!!!
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Real Alternative 1.29
user
on 31 January 2005
this software is great! i hated the realplayer and now, I can listen to whatever i want...thumbs up

to NT4 and w2000 users: get a proper, up-to-date OS ffs!
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Real Alternative 1.29
abc
on 20 January 2005
Didn't work at all on NT4: the media player classic reports "The proceduree entry point DirectDrawCreateEx could not be located in the dynamic link library DDAW.DLL".

Probably this software is not meant for NT4 (while searching the net, I found that other software also have exactly the same problem, and they don't have any answers either).
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Real Alternative 1.29
aad
on 19 January 2005
Real Alternative and quicktime works great under w.m. classic. and it is free. Only unistall realplayer 1 or 10 and Quicktime 6.5. via regcleaner. It is a must have for it plays all the codecs from old to the newest version esp.the soundfiles. Older codecs are missing in wmp.10. So they say look on the web but if you already can find the older codec mostly you have to pay for it. So do install these little codec programms in the proper way than it will amaze you. Again it is for free. Greetings all. Oh don,t uninstall wmp 10 because
you can always use this quy.
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Real Alternative 1.29
aad
on 19 January 2005
after having troubles with realplayer 1 and 10 i installed real alternative with wmp classic together and i must say it works great. you must use them together. i am still working with wmp 10 and that goes fine to.as i need it. you have to see it so by this programm you have all the codecs from real and wmp from old to new. and it is for free. don,t forget that.
It works so well because the old codecs to play audio in wmp 10 and realplayer 1 or10 (they have forgotten to install these) still are working fine under real alternative.
Iam working under WXP.
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Real Alternative 1.29
Laurence
on 15 January 2005
A good alternative to realplayer 10. Nice and simple. No Ads, burning option, etc. My probem is that I've setup a streaming media machine which works fine except that using real alternative you can't use the slider to go back and forth in the film, it just hangs. Which means I can't really recommend it to others. Slider works ok in real player 10. Nearly there. Streaming media server is helix version 10. (same happens to all helix versions). keep up the good work. PS What's the real alternative Linux Option?
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Real Alternative 1.29
duh
on 09 January 2005
Downloaded and installed it without Media Player Classic. I dont want to install additional players (not MP classic nor that steaming pile of nuts called Real One Player) so I use it with Windows Media Player 10 and only few files (like 1 out of 5) actually plays correctly. Most audio/video files don't play at all, WMP only says its unable to find codec for the file.
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Real Alternative 1.29
TheBobman
on 03 January 2005
Well, it does exactly what it supposed to do, but in a multi-monitor environment I can only get it to work on monitor 1. On monitor 2 it frequently doesn't work.
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Real Alternative 1.29
Pummi in Akron, OH
on 01 January 2005
Media Player Classic has been flawless but I didn't read enough good about Real Alternative 1.29 so I saved it for later. I just had a system crash and installing Real Alternative 1.29 is one reason I can be happy. Media Player Classic survived the crash and I got rid of that stupid crashing Real Player for good. I write HTML for fun and my browser plays embedded media and connects to my favorite radio station on web pages I authored. It's great, that is all.
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Real Alternative 1.29
Paul
on 28 December 2004
Cant you guys understand that the player included in the package is NOT PROVIDED BY THIS SITE!!! It's The old cla$$ic Windows MEDIA PLAYER and its just included there for you to use. Its the codec that these guys made not the player. Duh!
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Real Alternative 1.29
JS
on 27 December 2004
It doesn't play rm files broadcasted from radio stations such as WKCR, at least on my windows 2000.
The idea is good but since I need a realplayer on for radio station I will uninstall it and go back to realone :-(
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Real Alternative 1.29
Jez
on 17 December 2004
It works fine for me except I couldn't get the ram files embedded in the web-pages to play. Media Player comes up and says "cannot find the specified file.." I tried downloading the ram file but had the same problem.

To answer lilboy's question down there, this download is *not* a "program", it is *not* a player that "looks" like Windows Media Player.. it's a codec which allows you to play RealPlayer files *in* Media Player. You have the option of installing Media Player 6 with the codec, but I prefer to use MP 9 (10 $uck$). So I de-selected that option. And as for "overlapping and overwriting issues" well there are none. It's a codec. Just like DivX is a codec. Same thing, but for RealPlayer files. Got that? Good.
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Real Alternative 1.29
Anonymous
on 15 December 2004
Works perfectly for me. I'm using a pyrated copy of Windows XP Professional with only service pack 1 (windows update won't let me get service pack 2 because my xp copy is illegal, hehe). After Real Player stole credit card numbers, passwords and other personal information with their previous "download manager" program, i will never trust those jerks again. Real Player is probably working with the privacy-invading Echelon or something like that. Conspiracy so trust no one, choose the underdog!
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Real Alternative 1.29
Spencer Thayer
on 08 December 2004
I was hoping to get an alternative to Real Player but all I got was a program that ruins every codec on a computer. Maybe it's incapatible with one of my graphics cards or maybe its poorly written. Either way on my computer it "zooms" in to the top right corner of the video. Not just real player files but all video files expect for those usingt DIVX, that doesn't even play at all. Sure it could be something else wrong with my computer, but I dig the simplest answer. I install the program and then I open it up and stream it and there was the error. Then I opened other files and once again, error. SO I'm just gonna a$$ume it's Real Player Alternative. Watch out. You may have to go through a hell of a battle restoring your codecs.
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Real Alternative 1.29
GLITCH
on 08 December 2004
I can't get this to work, Am I trying to convert the wrong type of files? .RAX is what I'm working on there the purchased music from Real.(grr hate them don't know why I bought from them. grr) Help me please....
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