Looking for Real Media (.rm) player

[Jaxidian]

Anybody have any good suggestions for a good media player that plays .rm videos in Windows? I've had bad experiences with Real's software so I don't want to install their stuff on my clean install of Win XP.

Thx!
-Jax

 

[Heisenberg]

Real Alternative Not perfect, but it works most of the time.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Look for RealAlternative, it's a codec that allows you to play Real media in any player.

 

[Jaxidian]

Sweet, thanks you two. Will give it a try. Got me a South Park episode I missed last nite that requires viewing. 😉

 

[SultanEmerr]

http://www.ultraplayer.com

http://projectmayo.com/projects/index.php

http://www.videolan.org

http://www.jetaudio.com/download

http://www.faststone.org

 

[dBTelos]

Originally posted by: SultanEmerr
http://www.ultraplayer.com

http://projectmayo.com/projects/index.php

http://www.videolan.org

http://www.jetaudio.com/download

http://www.faststone.org

Sultan! nice to see you 🙂 I thought that the only players that could play .ram files were Realplayer and Realplayer Alternative?

 

[SultanEmerr]

Originally posted by: dBTelos

Originally posted by: SultanEmerr
http://www.ultraplayer.com = "UltraPlayer handles the playing chores for MP3, WMA, RealAudio, WAV, MIDI, CD Audio, Internet radio, AND video files (Windows Media, AVI, MPEG, Real). It looks and sounds great, it's lightweight and powerful, and it's more handy than a big bucket full of llamas and aliens."


http://www.faststone.org = "FastStone Player , A FREE multimedia player intended to enable users to play all common media files (MP3, Divx, Xvid, MPEG, Windows Media and Real Media) within one program with high flexibility and simplicity."


http://projectmayo.com/projects/index.php = Outdated link. Sorry.

http://www.videolan.org = Opps. About everything except Real. Misread.


http://www.jetaudio.com/download

Sultan! nice to see you 🙂 I thought that the only players that could play .ram files were Realplayer and Realplayer Alternative?

Hello my friend,
That list was good at one time. However, after rechecking, I have made a few changes.

 

[Deinonych]

Tag for later.

 

[jameswhite1979]

vlc player - Plays everything

 

[dBTelos]

Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
vlc player - Plays everything

VLC doesn't play .ram (.rm) files, the subject at hand.

 

[Hadsus]

Yeah, Real Alternative seems to work for me.....no luck with ultraplayer playing videos.

 

[Evander]

It's an official Real product, but you might like Real Player Enterprise. It's a no-frills version of Real Player primarily designed for businesses and schools, supposedly it plays Real files and doesn't do much of anything else. Free but requires registration

Personally, I like the default Real Player- not many freeware apps that I've seen display text-on-CD (track names on audio cd's built-into the cd, great for your custom mix cd's), and also the Gracenote CDDB provided in Real is much better than the free cddb that most freeware media players/rippers support, especially for foreign cds. Just opt out of any advertising during install, and disable realsched.exe from system startup and you've got yourself a lean, nicely-featured player. I used Real Alternative previously but uninstalled and went for Real Player instead (b/c some streams wouldn't work on RA). Real had a bad rep in the past (for spyware and/or ads) that's why i choose Real Alternative initially, but seriously Real Player works nicely. They are also largely to thank for the open source Helix

 

[Jaxidian]

I ended up going the Real Alternative (I think Lite - just installed codecs and such, not the media player that comes with it) and it worked uberly.

Sorry for the delay in following up. Thanks to all for the help! 🙂

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: dBTelos

Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
vlc player - Plays everything

VLC doesn't play .ram (.rm) files, the subject at hand.

No player will play everything unless you have the proper codec.
I'm not sure if the CCCP has Real Player Alternative built in, but it'll play just about anything else so it's a good thing to have around anway (plus it comes with ffdshow).