RealPlayer 8 works!
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TV ClubHouse: Archive: USA 2002: All Things Technical for BB 2002 (computer stuff): RealPlayer 8 works!

Freydnot

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am able to watch the feeds using real player plus 8. I'm very happy about it. I am a subscriber (Goldpass from last year) so I'm not hacking anything.

I did have to allow RP8 to update a video codec (I think it was RealVideo9 or something like that) which was fine. Just be sure you click the button to get more details before you let it start downloading "upgrades" willy nilly.

Yay.

Justin42

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 10:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How did you get the link? I tried to go in with RP8 (I find RPOne to be a major resource hog) but couldn't find a link to get into the BB3 feeds.

I'd love to put RP8 back on...

Bettyblue

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 11:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yes, it works to my surprise(I don't have Windows 98) but it times out with that MEAN man saying "The content you are watching etc and contact the administrator" urgggg......I am getting mad now, going Balistic.........
Justin42: I dont know, I just hit my old BB2 link and it worked, you have to be patient and hit it alot......

Freydnot

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 11:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to home.real.com and clicked through to the BB3 feeds.

People have posted URL's now, so if you can't get in the front door, you can try some of them.

Jadeygurl39

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i am having so many problems with realone in the last day and now i am unable to watch bb3 at all on line. can anyone help me? if anyone can and has paypal i will pay you 10 bucks. i am pathetic and missing big brother. please help.

Justin42

Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jadeygurl-- if you can describe your problem, I'm sure we can get you going again. Do you have an old copy of RealPlayer 8 you can install? That fixed so many problems I can't even tell you (uninstalling RealONE was quite cathartic for me-- it's a horribly written piece of --- software! :)

Jadeygurl39

Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 10:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Justin,

I think the problem was I loaded RealArcade a couple days ago and since then have had problems. When I would click open RealOne, it would open up and then I would click on BB3. It "used" to open up to the feeds. Now, it opens up to "download file to....open to this location or save to disk". If I tried to open to this location, it would open a new web page and it would have a line reading, "http//:realsmile etc...". It kept looping to that. Someone told me that my video had a different extention than ram or something. I finally was able to change it but if it happens again I am in trouble. I have RealPlayer 8 on CD. This may sound really stupid but if I uninstall RealOne will RealPlayer 8 work and also I already paid for RealOne. Would I have to pay for RealPlayer 8 again? Sorry I am pretty dumb on computers.

Thanks so much for responding. :) Oh I think RealOne stinks too.

Justin42

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 03:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, if it's working now, I'd say don't touch a thing til the problem starts again. :)

As for RP8, I don't know how it would affect your RealArcade. Technically, buying RealOne is just paying the monthly service fee-- you will be able to download RealOne as long as your subscription is active.

It sounds like you may want to start by re-installing RealOne and see if that clears up the problems (if they start again). Otherwise, I have been able to make BB3 work properly with both RealPlayer 8 and RealPlayer Plus 8. Just be sure you uninstall RealOne first and restart your computer before installing RP8. RP8 will "complain" that you are not using the latest version of RealPlayer, I can't find a way around that except to click and smile knowing that your computer will work better with Rp8, even with the error.

When you first try to start the live feeds it'll ask you to install a 210kb update, which are the RealVideo 9 decoders (Basically, the video format BB3 is using). Let it do that and restart.

The link I use to start it (in RealPlayer, go to File->Open Location) is http://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb3&url=bb3_1.smil . Seems to work (you can also feed that into the BBReloader, which is mentioned in other posts).

Hopefully this helps you and doesn't confuse you more. :) I would personally say that the "downgrade" to RealPlayer 8 is very much worth it (I cannot tell you how many things RealOne screwed up, both on my computer at home and at work), but if you're not sure, and things are working fine, you may want to stay with RealOne for the time being.

Payforfun

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Opening Real Player in New Window for multiple Feeds....
I can't believe that I haven't been able to figure this out yet, but when I downloaded Realplayer about a week ago, I probably checked off where it wouldn't open up in a new window to play an additional feed or movie, which is normally what I want.
Of course, for BB3, I want the option to have all 4 feeds showing, but when I go to camera 2, all it does is replace camera 1, so only one azat a time.
Any suggestions, or where to find on Realplay???
Thanks,
Larry

Payforfun

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 05:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First post without spellcheck and in a hurry, bad combination ;)

Jadeygurl39

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 10:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Justin,

**holding breath** My RealOne is working so like you said I will keep it. If it wigs out on me again, I will uninstall it, reboot, and install RealPlayer 8.

Thanks again...

Lilkimishot

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Do you have to subscribe to BB3 to watch it through RealPlayer 8?
I subscribed to the 24.95 version and DLed RealOne and it is complete and utter crap and practically killed my poor computer so I am taking all of yr advice (by the way THANK YOU ALL(!!)...i thought i was gonna have to get irate with real) but I was just wondering if you go thru RealPlayer 8 w/o having the subscription will it give you an error message or what? (Hope that makes sense)

Justin42

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 03:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, you need a subscription to watch...

Biggusbrotherus

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I need help. :-(

I bought the $24.95 deal, and when I sign in using Real Player 8 (I'm on a Mac, using OS 8.6), I get my pass accepted (it confirms my log in), and even get to the "I Agree" screen (on content and such), but after I hit "I Agree" I get sent back to the "You must subscribe" screen on Real Player. Every time. I disabled my firewall and still it doesn't work.

Ideas?

Justin42

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Has it ever worked for you before? Be sure you have cookies enabled in BOTH RealPlayer and in your web browser. (Not sure where you would look for that on a Mac-- just look around)

I had the same problem once, but the feeds were down-- maybe try in the morning?

Biggusbrotherus

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Justin:

All cookies on. Just to make sure, I signed up for Super Pass, too -- still no feeds. I got some canceling to do tomorrow with Real. :-(

Biggusbrotherus

Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 01:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fixed it. In prefs, switched to Auto-Configure on connection, from rtsp. Works great now.