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Nobody in their right mind installs either of those crapware apps. Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative work great.

Nobody in their right mind installs either of those crapware apps. Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative work great.

They post a link to a site that nails you with a bunch of crappy popups only only has a link to a massive codec pack, not Real Alternative.

If the hcclnet.nl servers are being slashdotted at the moment, you might try some of the other sources for Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative such as:

Free-Codecs.com
and
CodecsDownload.com

These two domains are mirros of each other, and also good source of many video codecs and even some free/OSS media players.

Translation: Preserving our monopoly by any means necessary.

But I suppose dirty tactics are fair game when you're competeting with Microsoft. . .

Still, I wouldn't let any Real software touch my computer with a ten-foot pole. It's disgusting how it takes over once you give it a foot in the door. I use the Real Alternative.

Real Alternative Works great for me, I have no problems viewing Real Media files on my Windows box - in fact I watched this video with it.

real alternative allows you to play all realmedia files without having to install realplayer.

WMP 6 was awesome.

Try Media Player Classic. Completely open source, looks just like WMP6. Plays Real formats too.

Like all of the above, I too got fed up with anything Real has put out lately, for obvious reasons. That and it spontaneously reboots everyone's machines here in the lab.

Did some searching, found Media Player Classic (Article)- it's an open source clone of Windows Media Player before it got all colorful, space wasting, and less functional (WMP 8-9). Plus, with a bit more Google searching, I found Real codec packs for it as well. On the rare occasion I need to play Real content, I can.

Ever since I discovered this little gem, my need for other players has been rare indeed. In fact, the only occasions on which I've needed any other media players is to play ASX or WMV files. I also have Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative installed for good measure. Incidentally, these downloads come packaged with the ability to install Media Player Classic, albeit not necessarily the latest and greatest version.

Ever since I discovered this little gem, my need for other players has been rare indeed. In fact, the only occasions on which I've needed any other media players is to play ASX or WMV files. I also have Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative installed for good measure. Incidentally, these downloads come packaged with the ability to install Media Player Classic, albeit not necessarily the latest and greatest version.

There is a codec called The Real Alternative that plays realmedia files without the hassle of finding their free player.