An alternative to the RealOne player
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Arbustur

Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 07:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If anybody wants to try an alternative to the RealOne player, there is the RealTV Player. It takes up less space on your desktop and has a less intrusive looking interface (IMHO). The player is capable of taking screen captures without any external software. The screen captures are limited to the player window and are perfectly framed, so you don't have crop your pictures to remove any borders. Also, you can have it automatically take screen captures. There is a customizable play list to define the different cameras. You can have any number of cameras in one view. Setting up a dual cam is great when two conversations are occurring in separate parts of the house as you can hear both. Actually, the same thing can be accomplished with the RealOne player by creating a SMIL file and using direct links. Some disadvantages of the RealTV Player are that it lacks the video and audio adjustments that are part of the RealOne player. If you want to try it out, you can download it from the RealTV Player home page.

Jadeygurl39

Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Arbustur...RealOne Player has worked pretty good for me. This may be a stupid question but is it worth it to try RealTV or stay with RealOne?

Arbustur

Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 07:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jadeygurl, give it try and if you don't like it, then you can continue using the RealOne Player. Installing the RealTV player does not affect the RealOne Player in anyway(actually, there are two options that are shared between the two players that may effect the other). You can use it as companion to the RealOne player for features it does not have. For example, the direct screen capturing capabilities.

Lilliegirl

Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I will try anything i had the free realplayer and tried to download the realoneplayer for BB and it took alot of my files out of windows and now I cant even get the free realoneplayer to work piece of crap.

Arbustur

Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lilliegirl, you must have the Real Player installed on your computer because RealTV uses components from it. You may get lucky and the components are installed. Another problem that you may encounter is getting a Real Player cookie, which you is needed for your login.