Re: [PCWorks] A way to play Real Media (.rm) files on MPC (Was: Re:Where can you ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD RealPlayer?)
- From: "Ben Moore" <benmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:05:04 -0400
I've been using both real player alternative and quick time alternative for
a while. They both work well. The Quicktime alternative won't play some
quicktime files though. It seems to be files that come on instructional
dvd's. I haven't figured out why. I did find a "portable" quick time that
I use when the alternative won't play a file. Portable apps run fine but
don't write anything to the registry of your computer and so don't mess up
file associations.
Clint, you might do a google search for a "portable" real player. I know
there are some out there. If you can find an up to date version you could
use that when you want to download an rm file.
Ben Moore
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Behalf Of Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:48 AM
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Subject: [PCWorks] A way to play Real Media (.rm) files on MPC (Was:
Re:Where can you ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD RealPlayer?)
John I never received your post, I only saw it when David
replied on it. I'm glad I saw it because it had the method I
really wanted, and that is MPC playing .rm files. That's the
best thing that could happen, now we don't have to jack around
with RealPlayer BS. I installed "Real Alternative" you
mentioned and now MPC will play all .rm files, so there's no
need for RealPlayer! HA!!
Karl, Ed, Hugh, David, & John, there's a few things one may
have to do to do this. Apparently the download gives you the
Codecs needed to play Real media (.rm) files on any MPC (Media
Player Classic) version. But it also installs an OLD version
of MPC, build 81. I have build 98. I don't know if this will
still work if you uncheck to install the MPC version or not, it
probably will if the Codecs are still installed.
When I would play a .rm file, or a .avi file, or other, I had
THREE different builds playing them (81, 91 and 98). That kept
happening even after "Open with....." and selecting build 98.
So I had to delete all MPC's I found on my HD except the one I
put in the "Windows Media Player" folder which was v98. That
enabled v98 to open and play ALL media types, including .rm
files.
The only problem I see is when playing .rm files, there's no
longer the seek controls. There's just stop, play & pause, the
rest are grayed out for some reason. ??
So I highly recommend it. No more RealPlayer issues.
Now there's one thing and one thing only I liked about
RealPlayer, and that's this latest version I tried a few days
ago added a "button" to all .rm embedded files that allowed you
to download the video in one click. You'd right click (or
hover) the clip and see the download link. I tried all sorts
of types of these things and NONE of them worked until I tried
the RealPlayer method. So the question now is how to get that
back without having to install the full RealPlayer? I would
you guess you cannot and you'd still have to install RealPlayer
but just delete it (the main file) along with all its intrusive
"call home" files.
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
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