· VIDEO CODECS
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DivX 6.8
Koepi's XviD Codec
DivX Free
DScaler MPEG Filters
OggDS / OGM Codec
Nic's XviD Codec
Ligos Indeo Codec
· AUDIO CODECS
MPEG Layer-3 Codec
AC3 Filter
AC-3 Decompressor
CoreVorbis Decoder
LAME DirectShow Filter
LAME MP3 Encoder
Monkey's Audio
Vorbis Ogg ACM Codec
· CODEC PACKS
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The Codecs
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K-Lite Mega Codec
FFDShow MPEG-4
Codec Pack All in 1
QuickTime Alternative
XP Codec Pack
AC3 Filter
LAME MP3 Encoder
ACE Mega CodecS
Media Player Classic
VoxWare Audio CoDec
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Real Alternative 1.75 : Reviews
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Real Alternative 1.75
Date: 29 Dec 2007 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Rainer
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Very nice piece of software. I had some issues with Windows Vista though. If you run a multi-user environment the installer does not replace all paths in the registry. You have to replace all occurences of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\ with C:\Program Files\Real Alternative in the registry yourself. Otherwise Real Alternative won't load correctly for other users. (Media Player classic can't open files without admin privs, so does Internet Explorer. Firefox crashes when trying to load the plugin.)
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 15 Nov 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: fethi
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 20 Oct 2007 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Pharmaserve
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1.52 using MPC..work fine with "smi,smil" stream media...BUT 1.60[with MPC] Cannot play the stream file...
anyone can help??
thx a lot~~!!
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 9 Oct 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Dave
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I got an older laptop that well its older lol i cant run to much at once and windows media player was using too much resources, I love this player, plays all my MP3s and without any problems!!!!
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 4 Oct 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: mn
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So far this program has been a real answer to alot of REAL problems ive had. And Now i dont have to download that spyware ridden crap that is impossible to get with. Im not sure if this is a program made by a guy in his bed room, and not a large multinational software company, but if so, thanks dude, thats another blow to 'em!
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 27 Sep 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: prabhakar
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Dear Friends
its fine but it has one problem using real alternative for video streaming it takes some time for buffering.
If any one knows to avoid or reduce buffering time
pls inform me through my mail id.
if any one help thanks a lot
Regards
prabhakar
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Real Alternative 1.60
Date: 18 Sep 2007 | Rating: 2 | Written by: winwin
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Be carreful Real Alternative 1.60 doesn't work on WINDOWS 98 or Me !!!
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 17 Aug 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Radio Free Dexterdyne
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Most excellent package thank you.
The included media player is very good. Spend some time with the file extensions settings - you can point pretty much anything at it.
Test your playback at my dot.org box anytime:
http://www.dexterdyne .org
Cheers from the stormy north atlantic!
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 10 Jun 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: rik
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how come that whenever i view .rm files the audio skips a couple of times?
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 4 Jun 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Ronzbonz
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Nice Player!!!
Recomended to install it
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 27 Apr 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: kimberly
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does anyone know what converter can convert .flv to .avi or .mpeg???
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 17 Apr 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: matt
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I have been using this a few years now, after I got fed up with Real Player always adding it processes to startup, and always trying to make connections even when specially diabled all those options.
Anyway this is a must have program, and is a great way of getting MPC on top. Works with every Real media file I have used, so no problems there.
I have read some info on the net that it might not be leagl using this pogram, but i don\'t care as its much better than the orgional Real Player.
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Real Alternative 1.52
Date: 31 Mar 2007 | Rating: 4 | Written by: Newbie
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Thanks for the RA package. I've been using it on and off for years now. However, I still have problems receiving streaming RAM files with RA from a seemingly busy/high-traffic site:
http://www.democracynow .org
System:
Windows XP
Celeron 256k
DSL
After approx 1 min 30 sec, RA shuts down and the following message appears:
"Connection to server has timed out. You may be experiencing network problems."
On a separate computer with Real Player installed, this is not a problem.
Otherwise, other streaming sites seem to work with RA.
Please fix this.
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Real Alternative 1.51
Date: 8 Mar 2007 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Kurt
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Excellent program. I found only one glitch. It won't self terminate with Replay Radio at the end of a broadcast. Otherwise it streams just fine and works beautifully.
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Real Alternative 1.51
Date: 7 Mar 2007 | Rating: 3 | Written by: tony
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I have two computers (both Windows Vista Ultimate), and I installed Real Alternative on both systems. But on one of the machines, I get this flashing green vertical bar right in the center of the video, when I try to play a RMVB file. Very strange, because it works fine on my other computer...
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Real Alternative 1.51
Date: 2 Mar 2007 | Rating: 2 | Written by: X-Trace
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Around 50% of real videos I like to watch (because d**n webpages don't offer other formats) don't play with real alternative (player crashes). For example those here:
http://www.br-online .de/alpha/centauri/archiv.shtml
What's wrong?
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Real Alternative 1.51
Date: 21 Oct 2006 | Rating: 1 | Written by: B
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The fact that it doesn't support streaming media on WMP 10 defies the purpose of this program!
Most Real files are stremed people, so it's pointless to have a codec that can't play streaming content.
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Real Alternative 1.50
Date: 6 Sep 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Nowonmai
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Superb software! no more spamming commercials and unwanted RealMedia pop ups! I really like being able to configure which player you want to use.
Keep up the good work!
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Real Alternative 1.50
Date: 30 Aug 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Anonymous
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and users with problems, you must have messed up your codecs or something, or there's been severe bugs in earlier versions of real alternative, since i can't see a single flaw with this product.
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Real Alternative 1.50
Date: 30 Aug 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Anonymous
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this thing works great. i use only firefox as my browser and have detected no problems so far.
Forget the REAL real player, it $uck$ because of that extra crap and commercials.
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Real Alternative 1.49
Date: 4 Aug 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: S Peterson
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Really, not so good. I discovered that in order to play MovieLink downloads I had purchased, I had to update $RealPlayer$, except $Real Player$ was wiped off my system in the install of MPC.
Now I am searching the system for the uninstall program for MPC, so I can reinstall $$$RealPlayer$$$.
So MPC works fine, but the lack of an uninstall, and the inability to mimic $$RealPlayer$$ to MovieLink are definite drawbacks.
S Peterson
Win 2K
Dell Latitude C610
768 Mb RAM
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Real Alternative 1.49
Date: 27 Jul 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Darello
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Could anyone make a plugin for VLC Media Player?
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Real Alternative 1.49
Date: 27 Jun 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Gabby
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I had a question. You see i have K-lite codec package installed and media player classic. But i still cant play the videos i want on it. So i was thinking that maybe Realplayer alt. could help. But what would happen if i installed it and still keeping my K-lite package? I would really appreciate some help!
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Real Alternative 1.49
Date: 24 Jun 2006 | Rating: 4 | Written by: andreone
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If you encounter the msg "cannot render the file" when trying to play real media in Media Player Classic, rename the extension of the downloaded file .ram by .smil
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 14 Jun 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Kryclm
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I love it! Works great in Firefox, but can't seem to get it to work in IE. Any suggestions?
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 11 Jun 2006 | Rating: 4 | Written by: Wilie_Coyote
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Hope this is the right place to post a suggestion. Posted this in relivant areas
I've been using RA, QA MPc and VLC and G-Spot and Audio Identifier for some time now, ever since i came accross them eons ago. With this tools I am able to watch and listen to, I would say 95% of all formats (mainstream).
Is it possible to save a single installer for these items with option to pick and choose? Especially with QA and RA as I have noticed they both duplicate MPc (but in RA MPc is one version behind. VLC is a bonus as is the two codec identifiers.
RA Real Alternative
QA QuickTime Alternative
MPc Media Player Classic
VLC VideoLAN Client
Thanks
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 2 Jun 2006 | Rating: 4 | Written by: Marcus
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Well i like it a lot, it's definetly better than real player but why only mpc?
mpc kinda $uck$, i have to "fight" the pc for hours to get it to work on a level i actualy enjoy.
Is there any way to get it to work for any other player like vlc?
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 29 May 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Mohammad
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I am not looking for another media player though. I am using a software with its own data base and that software has some media files in .RM (real media) format, but it is configured to play these files using Windows Media Player. The software comes with some updates to install required codecs for WMP to run .RM files. It does not work though. The reason is that i am using win xp with WMP 10 and it is not supported by that software. I know that someone has downloaded a codec to play these files in the same environment, but unfortunately i am not able to contact this person. Can any one help in paying these .rm files on win media player ver 10?
Would greatly appreciate your help.
you can contact me directly at ctax2242@[nospam]aol.com
Thanks.
Mohammad
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 26 May 2006 | Rating: 1 | Written by: fix
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Use Real Player! This terrible stuff crashes my pc! WMP and MPC do not play real media. Real Player is a great player
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 23 May 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Jay Potter
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Love it. How can I get the source code? I would like to learn how to make it work and compile it locally.
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 22 May 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: FlyingPenguins
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It won't stream files, which is a big drawback for me. A few times I would actually have to use RealPlayer to handle those files. It is okay for offline content though, because you can still play them on Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic. Still, this is nowhere as good as how Quicktime Alternative performed.
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 21 May 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: maxand
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It's small and fast and plays .rm files on my xp system; what more could I ask?
I agree with comment 22 Apr 2006 | Written by: Graham, that after clicking Stop, there's no way to Play other than closing RA and clicking the filename in Explorer. A pain in the ass and so noticeable it should have been spotted immediately by the developer and fixed. Havent tried any previous versions so don't know if this bug occurred in any.
Havent tried the Mozilla/Firefox plugin.
I'm GLAD this app UNINSTALLS Real Player, which was installed on my machine by the vendor.
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 8 May 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: anonymous... anh, it's mae
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well, i haven't really dld this yet, but i want to cuz of all the comments you got here, it's just that, do i have to register to dld this? cuz i'm having problems with Real Audio, so i really, really, REALLY want to dld this!
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 8 May 2006 | Rating: 4 | Written by: vendy oliver
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I'll make it rating 5:Excellent, or even rating 6: Awesome if i know how to turn the my the movie upside down...
It's showing most of my movies upside down!!
Can anyone help?
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 1 May 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: BillyJoe
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Well, I haven't tried it on every possible site. I had been doing a lot of listening to BBC live, but BBC offers WMP or REAL as options, no big deal. Then, I wanted to see some video on PBS--no dice, I had uninstalled my RealPlayer 10 because it was a resource hog. So I had to install something in the REAL category. Real Alternative worked flawlessly on both BBC and PBS. Maybe you don't mind the resource hogging of RealPlayer, but if you do, and don't mind the lack of fancy options, and you just want to play REAL streaming video or audio format, and use low resources, Real Alternative worked for me (WinXp system.)
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 28 Apr 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: hoangviet1906k32
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Real Alternative 1.42
Rating: 4 | Date: 10 Jul 2005 | Written by: Jez
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."
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 22 Apr 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Graham
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For some reason if I stop a file I have to go and reopen because for some reason the Media Player Classic won't start it again once its stopped. also the program won't loop the file for the same reason. Is there any way to fix this.
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 15 Apr 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Adam
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So far this program has been a real answer to alot of REAL problems ive had. And Now i dont have to download that spyware ridden crap that is impossible to get with. Im not sure if this is a program made by a guy in his bed room, and not a large multinational software company, but if so, thanks dude, thats another blow to 'em!
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 8 Apr 2006 | Rating: 5 | Written by: Chris
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Good job man. Perfect for my purposes, plus it does not interfere with media player 10.
No spammy content to deal with, and no resource problems. Great !!!
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Real Alternative 1.48 Final
Date: 4 Apr 2006 | Rating: 3 | Written by: Jason
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I have no problem playing .rmvb files but I can't open .rm or .ram files. I've tried different players and none of them seem to work. I've tried renaming the file to .rmvb and opening the file in textpad to get the rtsp string. Neither of those have worked.
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