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The TVClubHouse: Big Brother 9 ARCHIVES: Big Brother 9 - Part 10 (FINAL): Technical Help: Real Player Help: Archive through March 01, 2008 users admin

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Dogrivergirl
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06-24-2005

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogrivergirl a private message Print Post    
O.K. I know that I am behind the rest of the civilized world, but I am on dial up access. I have always had the feeds on dial up. Watching the guinea pigs, my audio is very choppy. I am used to the video being like a slide show but, I have always been able to hear. I tried downloading the newest version for Real Player (11.5?), but could not get it to work. I uninstalled and went back to version 10.5. Does anyone have the list of settings that I should change in my preference tab of real player to optimize my viewing?

Purplecharm
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06-28-2006

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Purplecharm a private message Print Post    
I'm right there with you, I've watched for years on dial up and as long as I get my audio, I can deal with the choppy feeds but this year I can't get it to work. I hope someone can help us soon.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
sounds like your buffering might be not adjusted.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Tools-- preferences---under general you should see PLAYBACK settings

Livepause I set to 2 hrs. Enable turboplay and at the bottom you should see an area in which to SET the amount of time to Buffer.

I set it to 30 seconds.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Under Connection it should be a good idea to 'Test Connection'

that might help as well.

Good luck

Justin42
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08-05-2001

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Justin42 a private message Print Post    
Keep in mind the first night the feeds are absolutely overloaded when they go live-- tonight may not be the best time to tweak.

That said, I haven't seen any guaranteed links for dialup connections, although I assume they're out there-- what links are you using to watch? The ones posted here that I've seen have been more high-speed. Try going through the CBS or RealPlayer pages to get more generic links that may push you onto a better feed for dial-up.

Purplecharm
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06-28-2006

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Purplecharm a private message Print Post    
Ok, anything else, I've done all that already.

Purplecharm
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06-28-2006

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Purplecharm a private message Print Post    
These are the dial up links I'm trying to use, although I have also tried to go through Real. When I go through REal it says not enough network bandwidth, when I go through links, it says that they are inactive or invalid.

rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb9_live&url=cam1_56.rm
rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb9_live&url=cam2_56.rm
rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb9_live&url=cam3_56.rm
rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb9_live&url=cam4_56.rm
rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb9_live&url=quad_56.rm

Jooleechenlvr
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04-21-2004

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jooleechenlvr a private message Print Post    
Dogrivergirl.. I am on DSL and had the new Realplayer 11 installed.. I couldn't get it to connect so went back and got 10.5 installed and everything is running fine now and I can see the pigs

Purplecharm
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06-28-2006

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Purplecharm a private message Print Post    
Can you please post the link you used to download the 10.5 version?

Jooleechenlvr
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04-21-2004

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jooleechenlvr a private message Print Post    
I went to:

http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windows/Video/Players/real-player.html

Yowie
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07-21-2005

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yowie a private message Print Post    
Thank you so much for suggesting the use of Real 10.5 - it's working for me.
After signing up for superpass and d/l'ing real 11, i was completely unable to even get to the signin page - removed Real 11 and back to 10.5 - no problems now. Hampsters sleeping. World is good again.

I have a next problem that I'm hoping that someone might be able to help with....
Had hard drive failure a while back and lost both Bigbrolive.exe and realtv.exe.
I found the geocities d/l page for realtv.exe - but it seems to be down (so can't get that).
I also found the d/l page for bigbrolive.exe - and successfully d/l'ed that, but it won't open (unspecified .dll error). Tried removing and reinstalling, but no luck....
If anyone has any suggestions (other than paying for reloader - I'm a student and super-broke right now) they would be greatly appreciated....
Thanks and happy watching :-)

Sdaughs
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01-29-2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sdaughs a private message Print Post    
does someone have the links to the cams for no dial up, I am looking for the uninterrupted links...

Thanks

Vixeninvegas
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10-07-2002

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vixeninvegas a private message Print Post    
Hi all - I am new to using Real Player and at first I could view the quad cam but now I can only view 1 cam at a time... when I try to quad view I get an error message that says "XML: Mismatched tag near line 83: </par>"

I deleted cookies and restarted but didn't work - any ideas?

Lacyfour
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08-31-2007

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lacyfour a private message Print Post    
Last night I could get a picture but today I couldn't. I used the link above and uninstalled 11.0 and reinstalled 10.5 and now it works.

Luvbbplayers
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07-14-2006

Friday, February 15, 2008 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvbbplayers a private message Print Post    
I am like sdaughs, would like the NON timeout links

Luvbbplayers
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07-14-2006

Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvbbplayers a private message Print Post    
also, how do you get rid of all the big grey square part and just have the feeds on Real? this is annoying!

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 1:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Well, I decided to stay on Lightspeed internet (5x dialup speed) and couldnt figure out why the feeds were so bad. And I hated the big grey square part

anyways, I got rid of that new Realplayer 11 update and went back to the 10.5 Realplayer gold. it is way nicer to use and is smaller, more compact and uses less juice in this old pc.

I noticed that the extraction? files stayed in my downloaded files area even though I had deleted the Realplayer in the appropriate area.

So that was easy and now I am quite happy with lowspeed on this pc.

YOu know, I detest not have the option of 56k this year. I found when the feeds were really busy and choppy, if you went to 56k, you'd have a slideshow but clear sound.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I agree Sun. I used to use the 56k feeds kind of like you would use a radio. Just for listening in the background.

Rgw825
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07-29-2005

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rgw825 a private message Print Post    
I am also on Dial up 56k and got this response from Real,


Thank you for contacting RealNetworks Tier 2 Technical Support.

With technology getting better, video and audio streams require a faster connection to be able to carry the stream. This year the video is very clear, and very high quality. This would be impossible to stream over 56k dial up, as the stream comes over at 225K for High and 128K for Low.

Just as the US government is pushing the requirement for TV's to have a digital tuner. We are have to push the requirement for faster connections. This is the way of technology. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Jabelljba
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07-07-2005

Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jabelljba a private message Print Post    
How do I uninstall 11.0 and reinstall 10.5? Help please?

Vaxie
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06-25-2004

Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vaxie a private message Print Post    
Thank you so much for suggesting the use of Real 10.5 - it's working for me.
After signing up for superpass and d/l'ing real 11, i was completely unable to even get to the signin page - removed Real 11 and back to 10.5 - no problems now. Hampsters sleeping. World is good again.

I don't know how I got real 11 and was getting pretty P.O.ed i couldn't get it to work. Thank your the 10.5 version because I couldn't find it anywhere.


Skootz
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07-23-2003

Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 6:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
I made the mistake up upgrading real player....thank goodness I came here.

Jabelljba, just follow the link above that Jool posted and when you install the older version again, it will detect your other version and ask if you want to un-install it and it will do it for you.

Bbcole
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08-27-2007

Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bbcole a private message Print Post    
Does any one know how to get the slight blur out of the feeds?

(I was also happy to return to the old version of real player.)

Bicbicz911
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08-20-2005

Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bicbicz911 a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the link to 10.5!!

I've been wrestling with version 11 for a week now, fighting with "tier 1" online techs, waiting to be contacted by a "tier 2" tech", and growing more and more frustrated by the 6 day lack of feeds.

GRRRRR!

They shouldn't release a version that all the bugs haven't been worked out of.

Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions, thought it was just me.