Is your RealOne player freezing up too?
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Scorpiomoon

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey guys!

I just thought I'd pass this along:

Ever since I started watching the feeds, my RealOne player would freeze up (stop responding) every 20-30 or so. It was driving me nuts.

I just called Real tech support and was told there was nothing wrong with the software. Apparently, the BB feeds take up a lot of CPU usage and freezing, for the time being, is normal. The tech guy said they have been alerted to the problem and will be working on fixing it.

They better fix it. I am not going to spend the rest of the summer battling with this software 50 times a day.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Lurknomore

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Scorpio I was posting in the feeds suck thread on this at the same time you posted. So that would be a big YES from me :(

Shadowkat

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a cable modem with 512 RAM memory and I'm having the same problem. :(

__Tera

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cable modem here.. video and sound are crystal clear. Not bragging, just letting you know not everybody is having problems.

Sage

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was having problems too, and decided to delete RealOne, and thought I could use my Realplayer8, but for some reason I was missing a dll file, so I uninstalled that one, and reinstalled RealOne, and have had no problems since. I dunno why that helped.

I have had my RealOne since last fall, or whenever they first came out, so I don't know if there was something missing from the orginal one. I have cable, so it took about 5 minutes to download it. If you're on dialup it will take much longer. Good luck to all who are having problems.

Lurknomore

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My video and sound are perfect too with my DSL. The problem is that RealPlayer or whatever they are calling it this weeks keeps freezing and crashing.

Jhezzie

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've had RealOne for a while too, but when I was upgrading for the sneak peak, I saw a note telling people it was still in beta, so I guess the bugs aren't all worked out yet. Too bad our money isn't a beta version, lol.:)

Faerygdds

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK.. for those of you who are doing a ton of reboots...

When RP locks up I have just eough CPU to open up one more program... it's called APPSWAT.EXE

I think I got it off moochers.com ... it's a tiny little utility that allows you to "zap" programs. It's 10 times better than "end tasking" and when thy are gone.. they are gone!

When RP locks up... I run appswat, zap realplayer.exe and my system goes back to normal. Then I can just relaunch the feed and everything is A-OK!

I actually don't find this too annoying as with this computer... I have to do the same thing with the web... iexplore won't release rescources on this machine for some odd reason until you close it. anyhow... if it helps one person... I'll be happy :)

Catbowl

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have found that if I don't have any other apps open or if I don't close the media browser I am fine. If I just open it up and sit tight and just watch I am ok. Whats nice is that I can surf the web thru the media browser so that I don't have to open another browser. Also, if I don't make the screen bigger and smaller and just leave it as is its ok. I think its just a very fickle feed altho it is much clearer and not as much buffering as in past years. I really like the clarity, so will deal with the fickleness.