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Real Alternative 1.46
on 13 December 2005, reviewed by: Mick Diddams

With the genuine (ugh!) Real Player (RP) I could not play films/TV my ISP offers, zilch happened, then serendipity struck, I read the reviews on the alternative, dumped RP and installed the alternative - result, ****** amazing, all going great now. Ditto with BBC London who have a Henry Ford policy here, Real Player or nothing for both TV & Radio, they now both coming in 5/5 - well done version 1.46 - Mick

Real Alternative 1.45 Final
on 30 November 2005, reviewed by: Anonymous

# 73

Could you list system requirements. Is it one of those "needs IE installed" packages ?

Real Alternative 1.45 Final
on 22 November 2005, reviewed by: ten

# 72

many thanks to the creator
i despise real player and this is the perfect solution

Real Alternative 1.45 Final
on 14 November 2005, reviewed by: Crash2975

# 71

Despite reinstalling and restarting, Opera 8.5 does not see a RM or compatible plugin :(

Real Alternative 1.45 Beta 1
on 31 October 2005, reviewed by: Anthony Stump

# 70

The browser plugin does not work at all for Mozilla or Firefox.

Don't belive me - try this link: http://www.atlantafalcons .com/cheerleaders/squadBios.jsp

Browse to find one of the cheerleader's vids and it does not work.

Real Alternative 1.44
on 24 October 2005, reviewed by: kOLE

# 69

Good job fellows! Working fine.
To all the ones complaining about wmp, media player classic etc.:
This is just the codec ppl, nobody cares what player you use!

Real Alternative 1.44
on 17 October 2005, reviewed by: h2oz7v

# 68

Its good, but WMP still says it cant open the files and yes I have saved the .rm files to my disk (streaming doesnt work). The files work in the media player provided, but I like to keep everything simple in wmp. Can anyone help?

( 1 person likes it)

Real Alternative 1.44
on 16 October 2005, reviewed by: Andrew Schamess

# 67

I've been using media player classic for years, from sourceforge, and it's a good product. But after installing the latest version (1.44)from this site, I have the following problem: it crashes my wireless network every time it opens. It did this on my windows 2000 and windows xp computers. Worse, I tried uninstalling and installing the older version; and even going back to real player (yuk) - problem persists. Obviously it's modified something in my system that is not fixed by the uninstall. Has anyone else had this problem? Suggestions how to fix?

Real Alternative 1.43
on 16 September 2005, reviewed by: Keygen

# 66

Very good tool!thx

( 2 people like it)

Real Alternative 1.43
on 10 September 2005, reviewed by: cacaface

# 65

THIS IS GREAT!NO ONE WANTS TO INSTALL REAL PLAYER SO JUST GET THIS!!!ITS THE BEST!

Real Alternative 1.43
on 28 August 2005, reviewed by: Niranjan Sant

# 64

I am finding for best of the codec for wmp10. While searching I found this site. I will be back after downloading and finding performance of these codecs.

Real Alternative 1.43
on 22 August 2005, reviewed by: AndrewM

# 63

Fabulous product! I would love to see a better installer for this, however... Inno Setup files / batch files aren't as robust as MSIs. If there was an MSI installer for this, it would be easier to deploy in large environments. (hint, hint. ;)

If you'd like me to build an MSI for this particular package, please send the installation files and an email to distroball at msn dot com. Thanks and great job!

Real Alternative 1.43
on 21 August 2005, reviewed by: Josh

# 62

hmmm...I have XP and WMP 10 and just installed Real Alternative I played a RMVB file and I get a green screen...I wonder what's up...sometimes if I'm lucky I see 10s of it before it turns green :P Any hints on what's possibly going on?

Real Alternative 1.43
on 18 August 2005, reviewed by: Bini

# 61

This alternative has meesed up my whole media player..now it doesnt even play the .asf .asx files...before installing this alternative I was having fun listening the music but now I cant..Please find me some alernative...It crashes my Windows Media Player when I try to play the .asf & .asx files...

Real Alternative 1.43
on 17 August 2005, reviewed by: Torsten Pihl

# 60

Excellent. Thanks! Could you pretty please have it support the .viv format?

Real Alternative 1.42
on 21 July 2005, reviewed by: Lu

# 59

I haven't had any problems this program, and i have to say it's awesome, i really find real player annoying! Thanks.

Real Alternative 1.42
on 12 July 2005, reviewed by: Rhade

# 58

I am getting the same problem as it will not stream and says need codec it worked perfectly unitl it entered the 1.40 stages. FIX this please you louts!

Real Alternative 1.42
on 10 July 2005, reviewed by: Jez

# 57

Still won't stream RAM files. I always get a message saying:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

Real Alternative 1.41
on 01 July 2005, reviewed by: nitin

# 56

I downloaded Real Alternative 1.41 and the file after name after download is 65. But it is a non executable file - what do I do? I had downloaded it to play .rmvb files.

Please help.

Real Alternative 1.41
on 19 June 2005, reviewed by: asdfa

# 55

works great!

Real Alternative 1.41
on 19 June 2005, reviewed by: Praetorian

# 54

Avg antivirus has found a trojan horse IRC/backdoor.SdBot.Cs in the media player classic executable installed by this package...
What the f ?

Real Alternative 1.41
on 16 June 2005, reviewed by: Edson

# 53

Amazing program, works great on my P3 800.

Real Alternative 1.39
on 02 June 2005, reviewed by: aj

# 52

With my Windows 98 machine, this works great for me. No problems streaming either with this version, no freezing, I'm absolutely happy.

Real Alternative 1.38
on 30 May 2005, reviewed by: Firsttime

# 51

I just installed 1.38 on two machines. Both are running Win XP SP1, but for some reasons, it kept crashing on one of the machines whenever I opened the file.! :(

Real Alternative 1.38
on 28 May 2005, reviewed by: initial

# 50

I has to try a few time before a real media actually play, if not i can just hear the sound with the screen freeze at the starting scene.

Real Alternative 1.37
on 12 May 2005, reviewed by: Tomislav

# 49

Oh yeah, RA 1.37 is stream-buggied. 1.34 works OK too... Fix it, please...

Real Alternative 1.37
on 01 May 2005, reviewed by: Norman

# 48

It failed, every time I try to watch a streaming video, it tries to detect proxy settings, while If I use Real Alternative 1.29, it works fine. Please fix the bug.
Using IE 6.0+ it may also do the same as Firefox.

Real Alternative 1.37
on 29 April 2005, reviewed by: Derek

# 47

Real Alternative 1.37

Further to my request, 27th April 2005, for someone to answer my two questions, here is my e-mail address if somebody would like to contact me by e-mail...

derekmccarty@actrix.co.nz

Many thanks,
Derek

Real Alternative 1.37
on 27 April 2005, reviewed by: Derek

# 46

I am a newcomer to the Real world and am hoping that someone can give me some advice before I download Real Alternative 1.37
I have Windows XP with Windows Media Player 10.

What I would like answers to are the following questions.....

1. Will Windows Media Player 10 work with Real Alternative 1.37 by just downloading Real Media Codecs version 6.0.12872 ?
2. Do I need to download Real Media Direct Show Splitter version 1.0.0.9 as well ?

I am more than happy with Windows Media Player 10, I just wish that it would play ra and rm files without all this hassle !

Many thanks to anyone that can help.

Derek

Real Alternative 1.36
on 21 April 2005, reviewed by: Tex Lovera

# 45

Holy cow! Tinfoil hat alert. Someone didn't take their meds today.....

Anyhoo, I tried the Real Alternative, and it works great. Thank God I could finally get rid of RealPlayer.

Real Alternative 1.35
on 17 April 2005, reviewed by: daBrat

# 44

Well, I haven't learned a d**n thing except I am not alone in stating "Real Player Sucks," and I boycott them and other sites that support them. They're as evil as George Bush, dude & dudettes!What I cannot for the life of me figure out, why have so many sites switched to them? At least with the election, we know it was stolen...

Real Alternative 1.35
on 14 April 2005, reviewed by: Baadshah

# 43

Real Alternative isn't fully functional realmedia player. It doesn't all all the parameters that realmedia supports. I can't play embedded content which have the following parameters in their address:

.rm?start=4:00

and

"local machine pathname" /statpos:00:16.4

It works but realplayer, but not real alternative.

Real Alternative 1.32
on 10 March 2005, reviewed by: hey

# 42

I think its great the there is a 'Real' alternative. Kudos to developers.

However, I believe that the REAL Real alternative is to boycott Real content. If we (and I mean us) refused to participate in broken mediums, like DRM, then they would go away.

Everytime you discover content that is only available in Real format, complain to the provider and refuse to participate.

peace.

Real Alternative 1.31
on 04 March 2005, reviewed by: Tomislav

# 41

Just an appendix... Jet Audio will play ALL Real files. It's freeware in its basic version, and isn't spyware or adware. I'm glad if I helped someone..

Real Alternative 1.31
on 04 March 2005, reviewed by: Tomislav

# 40

For real audio clips (ra. -s)use JetAudio 6.1. http://www. jetaudio. com/download/index.html. Works great!

Real Alternative 1.30
on 22 February 2005, reviewed by: Joe Toad

# 39

Excellent. Only slight initial problem was at a web-site that uses a pop up window to play the videos. The first time I tried to stream an .rm video clip, it gave message in the green "rebuffering" strip which read "detecting proxy settings" which stalled the playing of the clip for about a minute or so. It finally played after that and subsquently there was no repetition of this kind of delay.

Real Alternative 1.30
on 15 February 2005, reviewed by: Neill

# 38

Great program. Nice to be able to ditch the invasive RealWhatever, like freakin' kudzu. It would've gotten five stars, except I can't use it to listen to Real samples on Amazon .com. I have to use the dread WMP 10 for that.

Real Alternative 1.30
on 14 February 2005, reviewed by: Tac

# 37

Frustrated and Desperate over Real Player. Dumped it all again and went looking on MSN Community XP site for others that might have prob's with Real Mess and found the dirction tothis program. I am a very basic pc user who enjoys litening to some radio on bbc that requires Real Player and one of the sites on my church site uses it. So disgusted with Real Mess that..got ERROR message when tried to send them my Remarks...lol...I have WMP 10 and need another program to take care of the rm or ram whichever...that it does not handle and now and then play a CD and or DVD in my system. Read all of aboe and need to know..Do I just download the 1 download of 1.30 or 1.29 and will that do the regular task for me. I read the remarks about running one With WMP. I am uneducated beyond E mails and a bit of surfing...HELP with plain simple english please.

Real Alternative 1.30
on 09 February 2005, reviewed by: rob

# 36

Hi ,I have a problem with real alternative to add subtitles.its aking me to add directshow.where do I get this?

Real Alternative 1.29
on 01 February 2005, reviewed by: Robin

# 35

It works well, except for when playing streaming media. It seems that it doesn't buffer long enough, and because of that it has to buffer several times for each clip. There are bandwidth setting but it seems that no matter what I set to it sets it self back to T1, which is to high. Is there anyway to change how long it buffers before playing, like in Real Player?